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AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS - 2016 Issue 4; New/Revised ICD-10-PCS Procedure Codes, Section 0-Medical and Surgical
Transplantation
Two new code tables were created using the root operation “Transplantation” to capture new anatomic areas that can be transplanted:
0WY Transplantation of Anatomical Regions, General
0XY Transplantation of Anatomical Regions, Upper Extremities
New code table 0WY enables face transplant (partial or total) to be coded specifically and new code table 0XY allows hand transplant to be coded specifically.
As with all ICD-10-PCS tables involving the transplantation root operation, there are two notable qualifiers:
Qualifier0 Allogeneic
1 Syngeneic
In a syngeneic transplant, the donor is the patient’s identical twin. In an allogeneic...
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