Cranial cerebrospinal fluid leak, spontaneous
Billable / specific
G96.01 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes in FY2027.
Inclusion terms
Applicable to
- Otorrhea due to spontaneous cerebrospinal fluid CSF leak
- Rhinorrhea due to spontaneous cerebrospinal fluid CSF leak
- Spontaneous cerebrospinal fluid leak from skull base
Excludes1
Not coded here — never report together with this code.
Excludes2
Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96) (from G96)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99) (from G96)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A) (from G96)
- congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99) (from G96)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88) (from G96)
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88) (from G96)
- neoplasms (C00-D49) (from G96)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94) (from G96)
Code also
An additional code may be needed.
Also known as
- Otorrhea due to spontaneous cerebrospinal fluid CSF leak
- Rhinorrhea due to spontaneous cerebrospinal fluid CSF leak
- Spontaneous cerebrospinal fluid leak from skull base
- Leak, leakage, cerebrospinal fluid, cranial, spontaneous
- Otorrhea, cerebrospinal
- Otorrhea, cerebrospinal, spontaneous
- Rhinorrhea, cerebrospinal
- Rhinorrhea, cerebrospinal, spontaneous
Parent code
- G96.0Cerebrospinal fluid leakHeader