Not Valid for Submission
S06.389 is a "header" nonspecific and non-billable code code, consider using a code with a higher level of specificity for a diagnosis of contusion, laceration, and hemorrhage of brainstem with loss of consciousness of unspecified duration. The code is NOT valid for the year 2020 for the submission of HIPAA-covered transactions. The ICD-10-CM code S06.389 might also be used to specify conditions or terms like brain contusion with open intracranial wound, with 1-24 hours loss of consciousness, brain stem contusion with open intracranial wound, brain stem contusion with open intracranial wound and brief loss of consciousness , brain stem contusion with open intracranial wound and loss of consciousness, brain stem contusion with open intracranial wound and moderate loss of consciousness , brain stem contusion without open intracranial wound, etc
ICD-10: | S06.389 |
Short Description: | Contus/lac/hem brainstem w LOC of unsp duration |
Long Description: | Contusion, laceration, and hemorrhage of brainstem with loss of consciousness of unspecified duration |
Consider the following ICD-10 codes with a higher level of specificity:
Tabular List of Diseases and Injuries
The Tabular List of Diseases and Injuries is a list of ICD-10 codes, organized "head to toe" into chapters and sections with guidance for inclusions, exclusions, descriptions and more. The following references are applicable to the code S06.389:
Inclusion Terms
Inclusion TermsThese terms are the conditions for which that code is to be used. The terms may be synonyms of the code title, or, in the case of "other specified" codes, the terms are a list of the various conditions assigned to that code. The inclusion terms are not necessarily exhaustive. Additional terms found only in the Alphabetic Index may also be assigned to a code.
- Contusion, laceration, and hemorrhage of brainstem NOS
Synonyms
The following clinical terms are approximate synonyms or lay terms that might be used to identify the correct diagnosis code:
- Brain contusion with open intracranial wound, with 1-24 hours loss of consciousness
- Brain stem contusion with open intracranial wound
- Brain stem contusion with open intracranial wound AND brief loss of consciousness
- Brain stem contusion with open intracranial wound AND loss of consciousness
- Brain stem contusion with open intracranial wound AND moderate loss of consciousness
- Brain stem contusion without open intracranial wound
- Brain stem contusion without open intracranial wound
- Brain stem contusion without open intracranial wound AND with brief loss of consciousness
- Brain stem contusion without open intracranial wound AND with concussion
- Brain stem contusion without open intracranial wound AND with loss of consciousness
- Brain stem contusion without open intracranial wound AND with moderate loss of consciousness
- Brain stem hemorrhage
- Brain stem hemorrhage
- Brain stem laceration with open intracranial wound
- Brain stem laceration with open intracranial wound AND brief loss of consciousness
- Brain stem laceration with open intracranial wound AND loss of consciousness
- Brain stem laceration with open intracranial wound AND moderate loss of consciousness
- Brain stem laceration without open intracranial wound
- Brain stem laceration without open intracranial wound AND with brief loss of consciousness
- Brain stem laceration without open intracranial wound AND with loss of consciousness
- Brain stem laceration without open intracranial wound AND with moderate loss of consciousness
- Focal injury of brainstem
- Focal laceration of brainstem
- Focal non-hemorrhagic contusion of brainstem
- Focal traumatic hematoma of brainstem
- Focal traumatic hemorrhage of brainstem
- Hematoma of brain
- Intraparenchymal hematoma of brain
- Open hindbrain contusion
- Primary traumatic hemorrhage of brainstem
- Secondary traumatic hemorrhage of brainstem
- Traumatic hemorrhage of brainstem
Code Classification
Code History
- FY 2016 - New Code, effective from 10/1/2015 through 9/30/2016
(First year ICD-10-CM implemented into the HIPAA code set) - FY 2017 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2016 through 9/30/2017
- FY 2018 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2017 through 9/30/2018
- FY 2019 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2018 through 9/30/2019
- FY 2020 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2019 through 9/30/2020