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33.20 - Thoracoscopic Lung Biopsy


The ICD 9 Code for Thoracoscopic lung biopsy is listed as 33.20.
Additional information concerning this code and description can be found below including ICD 10 crosswalks / GEMS and chapter information where available.

ICD 9 CM Volume 3 (PCS) Field Value
Procedure Code: 33.20
Description: Thoracoscopic lung biopsy
Short Description: Thoracoscopc lung biopsy
Chapter: Operations on the respiratory system
Subsection 1: Other operations on lung and bronchus
ICD-10-PCS General Equivalence Mappings (GEMS):
ICD 10 PCS Code: 0BBC4ZX - Excision of Right Upper Lung Lobe, Percutaneous Endoscopic Approach, Diagnostic (approximate)
ICD 10 PCS Code: 0BBD4ZX - Excision of Right Middle Lung Lobe, Percutaneous Endoscopic Approach, Diagnostic (approximate)
ICD 10 PCS Code: 0BBF4ZX - Excision of Right Lower Lung Lobe, Percutaneous Endoscopic Approach, Diagnostic (approximate)
ICD 10 PCS Code: 0BBG4ZX - Excision of Left Upper Lung Lobe, Percutaneous Endoscopic Approach, Diagnostic (approximate)
ICD 10 PCS Code: 0BBH4ZX - Excision of Lung Lingula, Percutaneous Endoscopic Approach, Diagnostic (approximate)
ICD 10 PCS Code: 0BBJ4ZX - Excision of Left Lower Lung Lobe, Percutaneous Endoscopic Approach, Diagnostic (approximate)
ICD 10 PCS Code: 0BBK4ZX - Excision of Right Lung, Percutaneous Endoscopic Approach, Diagnostic (approximate)
ICD 10 PCS Code: 0BBL4ZX - Excision of Left Lung, Percutaneous Endoscopic Approach, Diagnostic (approximate)
ICD-9-CM Volume 3 (PCS) Siblings (same level / similar specificity) of 33.20:
33.21 - Bronchoscopy through artificial stoma
33.22 - Fiber-optic bronchoscopy
33.23 - Other bronchoscopy
33.24 - Closed [endoscopic] biopsy of bronchus
33.25 - Open biopsy of bronchus
33.26 - Closed [percutaneous] [needle] biopsy of lung
33.27 - Closed endoscopic biopsy of lung
33.28 - Open biopsy of lung
33.29 - Other diagnostic procedures on lung or bronchus