Endoscopic saphenous vein harvest for coronary artery bypass grafting

Clinical classification codes

Coding recommendations

One of the following OPCS-4 codes is used to classify the coronary artery bypass grafting with a saphenous vein graft, depending on the number of arteries replaced:

K40.9 Unspecified saphenous vein graft replacement of coronary artery The endoscopic harvest of the saphenous vein is not coded in addition as this is implicit in the saphenous vein graft replacement code.