ICD-10-CM Code S06.30
Unspecified focal traumatic brain injury
Non-Billable Code
Non-Billable means the code is not sufficient justification for admission to an acute care hospital when used a principal diagnosis. Use a child code to capture more detail.ICD Code S06.30 is a non-billable code. To code a diagnosis of this type, you must use one of the ten child codes of S06.30 that describes the diagnosis 'unspecified focal traumatic brain injury' in more detail.
- S06.30 Unspecified focal traumatic brain injury NON-BILLABLE
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The ICD code S063 is used to code Cerebral contusion
Cerebral contusion, Latin contusio cerebri, a form of traumatic brain injury, is a bruise of the brain tissue. Like bruises in other tissues, cerebral contusion can be associated with multiple microhemorrhages, small blood vessel leaks into brain tissue. Contusion occurs in 20–30% of severe head injuries. A cerebral laceration is a similar injury except that, according to their respective definitions, the pia-arachnoid membranes are torn over the site of injury in laceration and are not torn in contusion. The injury can cause a decline in mental function in the long term and in the emergency setting may result in brain herniation, a life-threatening condition in which parts of the brain are squeezed past parts of the skull. Thus treatment aims to prevent dangerous rises in intracranial pressure, the pressure within the skull.
Specialty: | Emergency Medicine |
ICD 9 Code: | 851 |
CT scan showing cerebral contusions, hemorrhage within the hemispheres, subdural hematoma on the left, and skull fractures
Related Concepts SNOMET-CT
- Brain stem contusion without open intracranial wound AND with brief loss of consciousness (less than one hour) (disorder)
- Cortex contusion without open intracranial wound AND with concussion (disorder)
- Brain stem contusion without open intracranial wound AND with concussion (disorder)
- Cortex contusion without open intracranial wound AND with moderate loss of consciousness (1-24 hours) (disorder)
- Cortex contusion without open intracranial wound AND with prolonged loss of consciousness (more than 24 hours) without return to pre-existing conscious level (disorder)
- Brain stem contusion without open intracranial wound AND with prolonged loss of consciousness (more than 24 hours) AND return to pre-existing conscious level (disorder)
- Brain stem contusion without open intracranial wound AND with no loss of consciousness (disorder)
- Cortex contusion without open intracranial wound AND with no loss of consciousness (disorder)
- Cortex laceration without open intracranial wound AND with concussion (disorder)
Coding Advice SNOMET-CT
- Possible requirement for an external cause code
ICD-10-CM Alphabetical Index References for 'S06.30 - Unspecified focal traumatic brain injury'
The ICD-10-CM Alphabetical Index links the below-listed medical terms to the ICD code S06.30. Click on any term below to browse the alphabetical index.
Parent Code: S06.3 - Focal traumatic brain injury