ICD-10-CM code · FY2027
G96.0 Cerebrospinal fluid leak
Header codeNot billable: use one of the 5 billable codes below
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Coding notes for G96.0
Excludes1 Not coded here: never report these together with this code (use the code given instead).
- cerebrospinal fluid leak from spinal puncture (G97.0)
Code also Another code may be needed as well; the order depends on the encounter.
- if applicable:
- intracranial hypotension (G96.81-)
Chapter 6 notes (apply to every code in it)
Excludes2 Not part of this condition, but a patient can have both: report both codes when both apply.
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
- congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
- neoplasms (C00-D49)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)
Codes under G96.0 5
Related codes in G96
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