S06.81A
S06.81A: Injury of right internal carotid artery, intracranial portion, not elsewhere classified with loss of consciousness status unknown
Non-billable headerICD-10-CMright
S06.81A is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for injury of right internal carotid artery, intracranial portion, not elsewhere classified with loss of consciousness status unknown. It cannot be billed on its own: choose one of the more specific child codes below. This code also requires a 7th character before it is complete.
This code requires a 7th character
The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category S06, except as noted below
- A
- initial encounter
- D
- subsequent encounter
- S
- sequela
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Injury of right internal carotid artery, intracranial portion, not elsewhere classified NOS
Other codes that can never be billed with S06.81A
Their own Excludes1 notes name this code, so the conflict is not listed above.
- G31.84Mild cognitive impairment of uncertain or unknown etiology
- I69Sequelae of cerebrovascular disease
- I69.8Sequelae of other cerebrovascular diseases
- I69.9Sequelae of unspecified cerebrovascular diseases
- P52Intracranial nontraumatic hemorrhage of newborn
- S09.0Injury of blood vessels of head, not elsewhere classified
- S09.0XXAInjury of blood vessels of head, not elsewhere classified, initial encounter
- S09.0XXDInjury of blood vessels of head, not elsewhere classified, subsequent encounter
Risk adjustment
No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.
Code history
Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.
Code to one of these instead S06.81A
3 child codes. Green means billable.
- S06.81AAInjury of right internal carotid artery, intracranial portion, not elsewhere classified with loss of consciousness status unknown, initial encounter
- S06.81ADInjury of right internal carotid artery, intracranial portion, not elsewhere classified with loss of consciousness status unknown, subsequent encounter
- S06.81ASInjury of right internal carotid artery, intracranial portion, not elsewhere classified with loss of consciousness status unknown, sequela
Other codes under S06.81
- S06.810Injury of right internal carotid artery, intracranial portion, not elsewhere classified without loss of consciousness
- S06.811Injury of right internal carotid artery, intracranial portion, not elsewhere classified with loss of consciousness of 30 minutes or less
- S06.812Injury of right internal carotid artery, intracranial portion, not elsewhere classified with loss of consciousness of 31 minutes to 59 minutes
- S06.813Injury of right internal carotid artery, intracranial portion, not elsewhere classified with loss of consciousness of 1 hour to 5 hours 59 minutes
- S06.814Injury of right internal carotid artery, intracranial portion, not elsewhere classified with loss of consciousness of 6 hours to 24 hours
- S06.815Injury of right internal carotid artery, intracranial portion, not elsewhere classified with loss of consciousness greater than 24 hours with return to pre-existing conscious level
- S06.816Injury of right internal carotid artery, intracranial portion, not elsewhere classified with loss of consciousness greater than 24 hours without return to pre-existing conscious level with patient surviving
- S06.817Injury of right internal carotid artery, intracranial portion, not elsewhere classified with loss of consciousness of any duration with death due to brain injury prior to regaining consciousness
- S06.818Injury of right internal carotid artery, intracranial portion, not elsewhere classified with loss of consciousness of any duration with death due to other cause prior to regaining consciousness
- S06.819Injury of right internal carotid artery, intracranial portion, not elsewhere classified with loss of consciousness of unspecified duration