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
Risk adjustment
S06.8A1 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 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
Related codes at this level
Codes that share S06.8A. If S06.8A1 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
- 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
Questions about S06.8A1
- Is S06.8A1 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. S06.8A1 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does S06.8A1 sit in the tabular list?
- Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88), in the block Injuries to the head (S00-S09).