Dilation
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CCI component 2 codes - what was done | |
Procedure: | Dilation |
CCI 2 code: | 50 |
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 is a type of "what was done" to the body part in question --- it applies to Therapeutic Procedures only.
- Includes all sorts of mechanical dilation of body parts
- Those body parts may be nonvascular (e.g. trachea, esophagus) or vascular (e.g. coronary artery, femoral artery, jugular vein)
- Includes however the dilation is performed
- Thus includes dilation by balloon angioplasty, bougie, stenting, atherectomy.
- Ex. Ureteric stent insertion
- Ex. Includes cerebral angioplasty for cerebral vasospasm
- Thus includes dilation by balloon angioplasty, bougie, stenting, atherectomy.
- There are separate codes for
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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