ICD-10-CM code · FY2027
G97.6 Postprocedural hematoma and seroma of a nervous system organ or structure following a procedure
Header codeNot billable: use one of the 4 billable codes below
About G97.6
- Code
- G97.6
- Billable
- No, header
- Short description
- Postproc hematoma and seroma of a nervous sys org fol a proc
- Category
- G97 Intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of nervous system, not elsewhere classified
- Block
- G89-G99 Other disorders of the nervous system
- Chapter
- 6 Diseases of the nervous system
- Code set
- FY2027, October 1, 2026 to September 30, 2027
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Coding notes for G97.6
No notes of its own; the notes below apply from the codes above it.
Also applies, from G97 Intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of nervous system, not elsewhere classified
Excludes2 Not part of this condition, but a patient can have both: report both codes when both apply.
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 G97.6 4
- G97.61 Postprocedural hematoma of a nervous system organ or structure following a nervous system procedureBillable
- G97.62 Postprocedural hematoma of a nervous system organ or structure following other procedureBillable
- G97.63 Postprocedural seroma of a nervous system organ or structure following a nervous system procedureBillable
- G97.64 Postprocedural seroma of a nervous system organ or structure following other procedureBillable
Related codes in G97
- G97.0 Cerebrospinal fluid leak from spinal punctureBillable
- G97.1 Other reaction to spinal and lumbar punctureBillable
- G97.2 Intracranial hypotension following ventricular shuntingBillable
- G97.3 Intraoperative hemorrhage and hematoma of a nervous system organ or structure complicating a procedureHeader
- G97.4 Accidental puncture and laceration of a nervous system organ or structure during a procedureHeader
- G97.5 Postprocedural hemorrhage of a nervous system organ or structure following a procedureHeader
- G97.8 Other intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of nervous systemHeader
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