Fetal vesico-amniotic shunt for lower urinary tract outflow obstruction
Summary
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has issued full guidance to the NHS in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland on fetal vesico-amniotic shunt for lower urinary tract outflow obstruction.
Description
Insertion of a shunt to drain bladder of a fetus with outflow obstraction
OPCS code:
R04.1 Percutaneous insertion of fetal vesicoamniotic shunt
Y53.- Approach to organ under image control
A code from category Y95.- Gestational age must be assigned in a subsidiary position where this information is available.
Note: Codes within category Y53.- are used as secondary codes to classify interventions that are percutaneous and require some form of image control: if the method of image control is unspecified, Y53.9 Unspecified approach to organ under image control is assigned.
The NHS Classifications Service of NHS Connecting for Health is the central definitive source for clinical coding guidance and determines the coding standards associated with the classifications (OPCS-4 and ICD-10) to be used across the NHS. The NHS Classifications Service and NICE work collaboratively to ensure the most appropriate classification codes are provided. www.connectingforhealth.co.uk/clinicalcoding
Details
Gynaecology, pregnancy and birth
British Association of Perinatal Medicine
British Maternal and Fetal Medicine Society
Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists
Paediatric Intensive Care Society
Contact details:
(for general enquiries or comments)
(for procedure specific enquiries or comments)
ip@nice.org.uk
Interventional Procedures Programme
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
MidCity Place
71 High Holborn
London
WC1V 6NA
