G97.8Other intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of nervous system

G97.8 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for other intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of nervous system. 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 4 subcodes must be used instead.

Within G97, choose G97.8 (Other intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of nervous system) only when documentation doesn't support a more specific option: 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), accidental puncture and laceration of a nervous system organ or structure during a procedure (G97.4), postprocedural hemorrhage of a nervous system organ or structure following a procedure (G97.5) and postprocedural hematoma and seroma of a nervous system organ or structure following a procedure (G97.6).

To report this condition, pick the subcode that matches the documentation: G97.81 (system), G97.82 (system), G97.83 (shunting) and G97.84 (procedure).

Use an additional code 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.