ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code S06.9

Brain injury NOS

Head injury NOS with loss of consciousness

Traumatic brain injury NOS

traumatic brain injury

The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category S06

code to identify any retained foreign body, if applicable (Z18.-)

code, if applicable, to identify mild neurocognitive disorders due to known physiological condition (F06.7-)

any associated:

open wound of head (S01.-)

skull fracture (S02.-)

conditions classifiable to S06.0- to S06.8-code to specified intracranial injury

head injury NOS (S09.90)

birth trauma (P10-P15)

obstetric trauma (O70-O71)

Use secondary code(s) from Chapter 20, External causes of morbidity, to indicate cause of injury. Codes within the T section that include the external cause do not require an additional external cause code

The chapter uses the S-section for coding different types of injuries related to single body regions and the T-section to cover injuries to unspecified body regions as well as poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes.

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.