D78.8Other intraoperative and postprocedural complications of the spleen

D78.8 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for other intraoperative and postprocedural complications of the spleen. It belongs to category D78 (intraoperative and postprocedural complications of the spleen), block D78 (intraoperative and postprocedural complications of the spleen) and chapter 3 (diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs and certain disorders involving the immune mechanism). It is a header code, so it can't be reported by itself; one of its 2 subcodes must be used instead.

Within D78, choose D78.8 (Other intraoperative and postprocedural complications of the spleen) only when documentation doesn't support a more specific option: intraoperative hemorrhage and hematoma of the spleen complicating a procedure (D78.0), accidental puncture and laceration of the spleen during a procedure (D78.1), postprocedural hemorrhage of the spleen following a procedure (D78.2) and postprocedural hematoma and seroma of the spleen following a procedure (D78.3).

To report this condition, pick the subcode that matches the documentation: D78.81 (spleen) and D78.89 (spleen).

Use an additional code, if applicable, to further specify disorder.

It has been part of ICD-10-CM since the code set took effect on October 1, 2015 and hasn't changed since.