S09.0

S09.0: Injury of blood vessels of head, not elsewhere classified

Non-billable headerICD-10-CM

S09.0 is a non-billable header ICD-10-CM code for injury of blood vessels of head, not elsewhere classified. 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 S09

A: initial encounter
D: subsequent encounter
S: sequela

Excludes1: never code together

These conditions cannot occur together. Billing both on the same encounter is a denial.

injury of cerebral blood vessels (S06.-)
injury of precerebral blood vessels (S15.-)

Risk adjustment

No CMS-HCC V28 category: this code does not change a RAF score.

Alphabetic index entries that lead here

Injury›blood vessel NEC›head
Injury›blood vessel NEC›head›multiple

Code history

Unchanged in every release from FY2024 to FY2027.

Code to one of these instead S09.0

3 child codes. Green means billable.