ICD-10-CM › G00-G99 › G89-G99 › G97 Intraoperative and postprocedural... › G97.0
Cerebrospinal fluid leak from spinal puncture
ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.
Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.
What has happened to this code
Every change the publisher made, from 2007 to now. Entries marked draft are from the pre-implementation releases: ICD-10 took effect on 1 October 2015, so nothing before FY2016 was ever valid on a claim.
- FY2007 Added to the draft code set draft Cerebrospinal fluid leak from spinal puncture
Official coding rules
Published by CDC for FY2027. A rule attached to a category binds every code beneath it, so the rules inherited from this code's ancestors are shown with the code they come from.
Inherited from G97 Intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of nervous system, not elsewhere classified
Excludes2 - not included here
- intraoperative and postprocedural cerebrovascular infarction (I97.81-, I97.82-)
How CDC's index refers to this code
Wording from the official alphabetic index. Much of it appears nowhere in the code description, which is why a search for the everyday phrase so often finds nothing.
- Postprocedural
- Hygroma > subdural
- Leak, leakage > CSF
- Complication > lumbar puncture > cerebrospinal fluid leak
- Complication > puncture, spinal > cerebrospinal fluid leak
- Leak, leakage > cerebrospinal fluid > from spinal puncture
- Complication > nervous system > postprocedural > spinal fluid leak
- Complication > spinal > puncture or tap > cerebrospinal fluid leak
- Complication > postoperative > lumbar puncture > cerebrospinal fluid leak
Codes in the same group
| Code | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| G97.1 | Other reaction to spinal and lumbar puncture | Valid |
| G97.2 | Intracranial hypotension following ventricular shunting | Valid |
| G97.3 | Intraoperative hemorrhage and hematoma of a nervous system organ or structure complicating a procedure | Not billable |
| G97.4 | Accidental puncture and laceration of a nervous system organ or structure during a procedure | Not billable |
| G97.5 | Postprocedural hemorrhage of a nervous system organ or structure following a procedure | Not billable |
| G97.6 | Postprocedural hematoma and seroma of a nervous system organ or structure following a procedure | Not billable |
| G97.8 | Other intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of nervous system | Not billable |