T85.03Leakage of ventricular intracranial (communicating) shunt

T85.03 is the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for leakage of ventricular intracranial (communicating) shunt. It belongs to category T85 (complications of other internal prosthetic devices, implants and grafts), block T80-T88 (complications of surgical and medical care, not elsewhere classified) and chapter 19 (injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes). It is a header code, so it can't be reported by itself; one of its 3 subcodes must be used instead.

Within T85.0 (mechanical complication of ventricular intracranial (communicating) shunt), T85.03 is specifically for leakage of ventricular intracranial (communicating) shunt. Related codes cover breakdown (mechanical) of ventricular intracranial (communicating) shunt (T85.01), displacement of ventricular intracranial (communicating) shunt (T85.02) and other mechanical complication of ventricular intracranial (communicating) shunt (T85.09).

Codes in this range require a 7th character: A for initial encounter, D for subsequent encounter and S for sequela. Use placeholder "X" characters to fill any empty positions before the 7th character.

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