Postprocedural hematoma of a nervous system organ or structure following a nervous system procedure

ValidICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

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

Valid FY2017 onwards.

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2017 to now.

FY2017 Added to the code set Postprocedural hematoma of a nervous system organ or structure following a nervous system 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.

Hematoma > postoperative
Disorder > postprocedural
Complication > postoperative
Disorder > eye > postprocedural
Complication > hematoma > postprocedural
Complication > surgical procedure > hematoma > postprocedural
Complication > postprocedural > hematoma > nervous system > following nervous system procedure

Codes in the same group

Code	Description	Status
G97.62	Postprocedural hematoma of a nervous system organ or structure following other procedure	Valid
G97.63	Postprocedural seroma of a nervous system organ or structure following a nervous system procedure	Valid
G97.64	Postprocedural seroma of a nervous system organ or structure following other procedure	Valid