Accidental puncture and laceration of other nervous system organ or structure during other procedure

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

Valid for claims with a date of service in the current code year.

Valid FY2016 onwards.

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2010 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.

FY2010 Added to the draft code set draft Accidental puncture and laceration of other nervous system organ or structure during other procedure

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.

Disorder > intraoperative
Complication > medical procedures
Complication > musculoskeletal system
Complication > surgical procedure > musculoskeletal
Complication > accidental puncture or laceration during a procedure
Complication > intraoperative > puncture or laceration > brain > during other procedure
Complication > intraoperative > puncture or laceration > nervous system > during other procedure

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
G97.41	Accidental puncture or laceration of dura during a procedure	Valid
G97.48	Accidental puncture and laceration of other nervous system organ or structure during a nervous system procedure	Valid