Not Valid for Submission
S06.9X5 is a "header" nonspecific and non-billable code code, consider using a code with a higher level of specificity for a diagnosis of unspecified intracranial injury with loss of consciousness greater than 24 hours with return to pre-existing conscious level. The code is NOT valid for the year 2020 for the submission of HIPAA-covered transactions. The ICD-10-CM code S06.9X5 might also be used to specify conditions or terms like brain injury with open intracranial wound and prolonged loss of consciousness and return to pre-existing conscious level or brain injury without open intracranial wound and with prolonged loss of consciousness with return to pre-existing conscious level or intracranial hemorrhage following injury with prolonged loss of consciousness and return to pre-existing conscious level or intracranial hemorrhage following injury without open intracranial wound and with prolonged loss of consciousness and return to pre-existing conscious level or traumatic brain injury with prolonged loss of consciousness and return to pre-existing conscious level.
ICD-10: | S06.9X5 |
Short Description: | Unsp intracranial injury w LOC >24 hr w ret consc lev |
Long Description: | Unspecified intracranial injury with loss of consciousness greater than 24 hours with return to pre-existing conscious level |
Consider the following ICD-10 codes with a higher level of specificity:
Synonyms
The following clinical terms are approximate synonyms or lay terms that might be used to identify the correct diagnosis code:
- Brain injury with open intracranial wound AND prolonged loss of consciousness AND return to pre-existing conscious level
- Brain injury without open intracranial wound AND with prolonged loss of consciousness with return to pre-existing conscious level
- Intracranial hemorrhage following injury with prolonged loss of consciousness AND return to pre-existing conscious level
- Intracranial hemorrhage following injury without open intracranial wound AND with prolonged loss of consciousness AND return to pre-existing conscious level
- Traumatic brain injury with prolonged loss of consciousness and return to pre-existing conscious level
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