G97.8
G97.8 — Other intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of nervous system
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
G97.8 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for other intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of nervous system. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below.
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Risk adjustment
G97.8 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.
Code to one of these instead G97.8
4 child codes. Green means billable.
Related codes at this level
Codes that share G97. If G97.8 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- G97.0Cerebrospinal fluid leak from spinal puncture
- G97.1Other reaction to spinal and lumbar puncture
- G97.2Intracranial hypotension following ventricular shunting
- G97.3Intraoperative hemorrhage and hematoma of a nervous system organ or structure complicating a procedure
- G97.4Accidental puncture and laceration of a nervous system organ or structure during a procedure
- G97.5Postprocedural hemorrhage of a nervous system organ or structure following a procedure
- G97.6Postprocedural hematoma and seroma of a nervous system organ or structure following a procedure
Questions about G97.8
- Is G97.8 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. G97.8 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does G97.8 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the nervous system (G00-G99), in the block Other disorders of the nervous system (G89-G99).