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**The device may be diagnostic or therapeutic.
**The device may be diagnostic or therapeutic.
**This includes electrodes, catheters, ventricular assist devices, feeding tube, ventricular drain or shunt, joint replacement devices (e.g. total hip)
**This includes electrodes, catheters, ventricular assist devices, feeding tube, ventricular drain or shunt, joint replacement devices (e.g. total hip)
*** do you code PEG here  under Implantation of internal Device or under BYPASS? are you only talking about coding NG tubes in THIS CATEGORY? OR BOTH  
*** {{discussion}} do you code PEG here  under Implantation of internal Device or under BYPASS? are you only talking about coding NG tubes in THIS CATEGORY? OR BOTH  
**** please do a search on the wiki for PEG and let me know if you can really not find the answer. If you can, then please take out this question. Also, see [[List of CCI procedures we don't code]], we don't code NG/OG tubes.
To code VADs, put  
To code VADs, put  
*[[ (T) Ventricle]], [[Implantation of Internal Device]]
*[[ (T) Ventricle]], [[Implantation of Internal Device]]

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CCI component 2 codes - what was done
Procedure: Implantation of Internal Device
CCI 2 code: 53
CCI Collection Mode: CCI collect each

This procedure is a part of CCI Collection. This is one of the CCI component 2 codes - what was done.

Additional Info

  • This can be a tricky item to distinguish from Installation of External Appliance, especially when it comes to cardiovascular devices.
  • Things that go entirely within, or from outside to inside the body are considered to be internal devices.
    • The device may be diagnostic or therapeutic.
    • This includes electrodes, catheters, ventricular assist devices, feeding tube, ventricular drain or shunt, joint replacement devices (e.g. total hip)
      • Template:Discussion do you code PEG here under Implantation of internal Device or under BYPASS? are you only talking about coding NG tubes in THIS CATEGORY? OR BOTH
        • please do a search on the wiki for PEG and let me know if you can really not find the answer. If you can, then please take out this question. Also, see List of CCI procedures we don't code, we don't code NG/OG tubes.

To code VADs, put

Removals are not coded

We are only coding insertion/implantation of these devices, NOT their removal or subsequent management.

Alternate CCIs to consider coding instead or in addition

Related ICD10 Codes

(enter links to ICD10 codes that would likely go with this CCI procedure, but only in case of close relation, ie not every dx that might require this procedure)

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