S06.8A1: Primary blast injury of brain, not elsewhere classified with loss of consciousness of 30 minutes or less
S06.8A1 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for primary blast injury of brain, not elsewhere classified with loss of consciousness of 30 minutes or less. 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.
- Primary blast injury of brain, not elsewhere classified with brief loss of consciousness
Excludes1 inherited from the categories above S06.8A1
A category’s note binds every code beneath it.
Excludes2 inherited from the categories above S06.8A1
Not part of this code, but both may be coded when both are present.
Other codes that can never be billed with S06.8A1
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 S06.8A1
3 child codes. Green means billable.
- S06.8A1APrimary blast injury of brain, not elsewhere classified with loss of consciousness of 30 minutes or less, initial encounter
- S06.8A1DPrimary blast injury of brain, not elsewhere classified with loss of consciousness of 30 minutes or less, subsequent encounter
- S06.8A1SPrimary blast injury of brain, not elsewhere classified with loss of consciousness of 30 minutes or less, sequela
Other codes under S06.8A
- S06.8A0Primary blast injury of brain, not elsewhere classified without loss of consciousness
- S06.8A2Primary blast injury of brain, not elsewhere classified with loss of consciousness of 31 minutes to 59 minutes
- S06.8A3Primary blast injury of brain, not elsewhere classified with loss of consciousness of 1 hour to 5 hours 59 minutes
- S06.8A4Primary blast injury of brain, not elsewhere classified with loss of consciousness of 6 hours to 24 hours
- S06.8A5Primary blast injury of brain, not elsewhere classified with loss of consciousness greater than 24 hours with return to pre-existing conscious level
- S06.8A6Primary blast injury of brain, not elsewhere classified with loss of consciousness greater than 24 hours without return to pre-existing conscious level with patient surviving
- S06.8A7Primary blast injury of brain, not elsewhere classified with loss of consciousness of any duration with death due to brain injury prior to regaining consciousness
- S06.8A8Primary blast injury of brain, not elsewhere classified with loss of consciousness of any duration with death due to other cause prior to regaining consciousness
- S06.8AAPrimary blast injury of brain, not elsewhere classified with loss of consciousness status unknown
- S06.8A9Primary blast injury of brain, not elsewhere classified with loss of consciousness of unspecified duration