ICD-9 Code 804.61

Open fractures involving skull or face with other bones, with cerebral laceration and contusion, with no loss of consciousness

Not Valid for Submission

804.61 is a legacy non-billable code used to specify a medical diagnosis of open fractures involving skull or face with other bones, with cerebral laceration and contusion, with no loss of consciousness. This code was replaced on September 30, 2015 by its ICD-10 equivalent.

ICD-9: 804.61
Short Description:Opn skul/oth fx w/o coma
Long Description:Open fractures involving skull or face with other bones, with cerebral laceration and contusion, with no loss of consciousness

Convert 804.61 to ICD-10

The following crosswalk between ICD-9 to ICD-10 is based based on the General Equivalence Mappings (GEMS) information:

  • S02.91XB - Unspecified fracture of skull, init encntr for open fracture
  • S06.330A - Contus/lac cereb, w/o loss of consciousness, init

Code Classification

  • Injury and poisoning (800–999)
    • Fracture of skull (800-804)
      • 804 Multiple fractures involving skull or face with other bones

Information for Medical Professionals

ICD-9 Footnotes

General Equivalence Map Definitions
The ICD-9 and ICD-10 GEMs are used to facilitate linking between the diagnosis codes in ICD-9-CM and the new ICD-10-CM code set. The GEMs are the raw material from which providers, health information vendors and payers can derive specific applied mappings to meet their needs.

  • Approximate Flag - The approximate flag is on, indicating that the relationship between the code in the source system and the code in the target system is an approximate equivalent.
  • No Map Flag - The no map flag indicates that a code in the source system is not linked to any code in the target system.
  • Combination Flag - The combination flag indicates that more than one code in the target system is required to satisfy the full equivalent meaning of a code in the source system.