S06.8A4
S06.8A4 — Primary blast injury of brain, not elsewhere classified with loss of consciousness of 6 hours to 24 hours
Non-billable headerICD-10-CM
S06.8A4 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for primary blast injury of brain, not elsewhere classified with loss of consciousness of 6 hours to 24 hours. 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
Risk adjustment
S06.8A4 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 S06.8A4
3 child codes. Green means billable.
- S06.8A4APrimary blast injury of brain, not elsewhere classified with loss of consciousness of 6 hours to 24 hours, initial encounter
- S06.8A4DPrimary blast injury of brain, not elsewhere classified with loss of consciousness of 6 hours to 24 hours, subsequent encounter
- S06.8A4SPrimary blast injury of brain, not elsewhere classified with loss of consciousness of 6 hours to 24 hours, sequela
Related codes at this level
Codes that share S06.8A. If S06.8A4 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
- S06.8A1Primary blast injury of brain, not elsewhere classified with loss of consciousness of 30 minutes or less
- 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
- S06.8A5Primary 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 S06.8A4
- Is S06.8A4 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- No. S06.8A4 is a non-billable header code. Code to a higher level of specificity using one of its child codes.
- Where does S06.8A4 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).