S06
Intracranial injury
- Release
- FY 2027
- Effective
Official Coding Notes
Reproduced verbatim from the FY 2027 ICD-10-CM files.
Includes
traumatic brain injury
Excludes1
head injury NOS ( S09.90 )
Use Additional Code
code, if applicable, to identify mild neurocognitive disorders due to known physiological condition ( F06.7- )
7th Character
The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category S06, except as noted below
7th Character
A - initial encounter
7th Character
D - subsequent encounter
7th Character
S - sequela
Note
7th characters D and S do not apply to codes in category S06 with 6th character 7 - death due to brain injury prior to regaining consciousness, or 8 - death due to other cause prior to regaining consciousness.
More Specific Codes
10 codes under S06
- S06.0 Concussion Has subcodes
- S06.1 Traumatic cerebral edema Has subcodes
- S06.2 Diffuse traumatic brain injury Has subcodes
- S06.3 Focal traumatic brain injury Has subcodes
- S06.4 Epidural hemorrhage Has subcodes
- S06.5 Traumatic subdural hemorrhage Has subcodes
- S06.6 Traumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage Has subcodes
- S06.8 Other specified intracranial injuries Has subcodes
- S06.9 Unspecified intracranial injury Has subcodes
- S06.A Traumatic brain compression and herniation Has subcodes
Version History
How S06 appears in each release imported from the official files, newest first.
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FY 2027 Effective
CurrentIntracranial injury
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FY 2026 Effective
UnchangedIntracranial injury
Related Codes
Codes whose official notes reference S06
- F02 Dementia in other diseases classified elsewhere
- F06.7 Mild neurocognitive disorder due to known physiological condition
- F48.2 Pseudobulbar affect Billable
- G31.84 Mild cognitive impairment of uncertain or unknown etiology Billable
- I69 Sequelae of cerebrovascular disease
- I69.8 Sequelae of other cerebrovascular diseases
- I69.9 Sequelae of unspecified cerebrovascular diseases
- P52 Intracranial nontraumatic hemorrhage of newborn
- R40.2 Coma
- S01 Open wound of head
- S02 Fracture of skull and facial bones
- S04 Injury of cranial nerve
- S07 Crushing injury of head
- S09.0 Injury of blood vessels of head, not elsewhere classified
Data Source
Code information on this page is derived from the FY 2027 ICD-10-CM files published by CDC NCHS and CMS.
- Release
- FY 2027
- Effective
- Source file
- icd10cm-code-descriptions-2027.zip
Official ICD-10-CM source files (opens in a new tab)
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