ICD-9-CM Volume 3 is a system of procedural codes used by health insurers to classify medical procedures for billing purposes. It is a subset of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD) 9-CM. Volumes 1 and 2 are used for diagnostic codes.
Main sections
(00) Procedures and interventions, not elsewhere classified
() Procedures and interventions, not elsewhere classified
() Procedures on blood vessels
() Percutaneous angioplasty or atherectomy of precerebral (extracranial) vessel(s)
(01–05) Operations on the nervous system
() Incision and excision of skull, brain, and cerebral meninges
() Craniotomy and craniectomy
() Incision of brain and cerebral meninges
() Lobotomy and tractotomy
() Other excision or destruction of brain and meninges
() Hemispherectomy
() Other operations on skull, brain, and cerebral meninges
() Ventriculostomy
() Operations on spinal cord and spinal canal structures
() Exploration and decompression of spinal canal structures
() Other exploration and decompression of spinal canal
Laminectomy
() Division of intraspinal nerve root
Rhizotomy
() Chordotomy
() Diagnostic procedures on spinal cord and spinal canal structures
() Spinal tap
() Operations on cranial and other nerves
() Incision, division, and excision of cranial and other nerves
() Gasserian ganglionectomy
() Other cranial or peripheral ganglionectomy
() Injection into a nerve
() Injection of anesthetic into a nerve for analgesia
() Operations on sympathetic nerves or ganglia
() Sympathectomy
() Sphenopalatine ganglionectomy
() Other sympathectomy and ganglionectomy
(06–07) Operations on the endocrine system
() Operations on thyroid and parathyroid glands
() Incision of thyroid field
() Diagnostic procedures on thyroid and parathyroid glands
() Unilateral thyroid lobectomy
() Other partial thyroidectomy
() Complete thyroidectomy
() Substernal thyroidectomy
() Excision of lingual thyroid
() Excision of thyroglossal duct or tract
() Parathyroidectomy
() Other operations on thyroid (region) and parathyroid
() Operations on other endocrine glands
() Exploration of adrenal field
() Diagnostic procedures on adrenal glands, pituitary gland, pineal gland, and thymus () Partial adrenalectomy () Bilateral adrenalectomy () Other operations on adrenal glands, nerves, and vessels () Operations on pineal gland () Hypophysectomy () Other operations on hypophysis () Thymectomy () Other operations on thymus