Implantation of a shock or load absorber for mild to moderate symptomatic medial knee osteoarthritis

Clinical classification codes

Coding recommendations

The OPCS-4 codes for implantation of a shock or load absorber for mild to moderate symptomatic medial knee osteoarthritis are:

W81.8 Other specified other open operations on joint

Y02.1 Implantation of prosthesis into organ NOC

Z84.6 Knee joint

Z94.- Laterality of operation

ICD-10 categories M17 Gonarthrosis [arthrosis knee] or M15 Polyarthrosis would be recorded