Other cranial cerebrospinal fluid leak
Billable / specific
G96.08 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
- Postoperative cranial cerebrospinal fluid leak
- Traumatic cranial cerebrospinal fluid leak
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
- Postoperative cranial cerebrospinal fluid leak
- Traumatic cranial cerebrospinal fluid leak
- Fistula, cerebrospinal
- Leak, leakage, cerebrospinal fluid, cranial, postoperative
- Leak, leakage, cerebrospinal fluid, cranial, specified NEC
- Leak, leakage, cerebrospinal fluid, cranial, traumatic
- Otorrhea, cerebrospinal, postoperative
- Otorrhea, cerebrospinal, specified NEC
- Otorrhea, cerebrospinal, traumatic
- Rhinorrhea, cerebrospinal, postoperative
- Rhinorrhea, cerebrospinal, specified NEC
- Rhinorrhea, cerebrospinal, traumatic
Parent code
- G96.0Cerebrospinal fluid leakHeader