G97.4Accidental puncture and laceration of a nervous system organ or structure during a procedure

G97.4 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for accidental puncture and laceration of a nervous system organ or structure during a procedure. It belongs to category G97 (intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of nervous system, not elsewhere classified), block G89-G99 (other disorders of the nervous system) and chapter 6 (diseases of the nervous system). It is a header code, so it can't be reported by itself; one of its 3 subcodes must be used instead.

Within G97 (intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of nervous system, not elsewhere classified), G97.4 is specifically for accidental puncture and laceration of a nervous system organ or structure during a procedure. Related codes cover cerebrospinal fluid leak from spinal puncture (G97.0), other reaction to spinal and lumbar puncture (G97.1), intracranial hypotension following ventricular shunting (G97.2), intraoperative hemorrhage and hematoma of a nervous system organ or structure complicating a procedure (G97.3), postprocedural hemorrhage of a nervous system organ or structure following a procedure (G97.5), postprocedural hematoma and seroma of a nervous system organ or structure following a procedure (G97.6) and other intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of nervous system (G97.8).

To report this condition, pick the subcode that matches the documentation: G97.41 (procedure), G97.48 (procedure) and G97.49 (procedure).

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