Intracranial hypotension
Non-billable header
G96.81 is a non-billable header code. Use one of the more specific codes below.
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.
- any associated diagnoses, such as:
- Brachial amyotrophy (G54.5)
- Cerebrospinal fluid leak from spine (G96.02)
- Cranial nerve disorders in diseases classified elsewhere (G53)
- Nerve root and compressions in diseases classified elsewhere (G55)
- Nonpyogenic thrombosis of intracranial venous system (I67.6)
- Nontraumatic intracerebral hemorrhage (I61.-)
- Nontraumatic subdural hemorrhage (I62.0-)
- Other and unspecified cord compression (G95.2-)
- Other secondary parkinsonism (G21.8)
- Reversible cerebrovascular vasoconstriction syndrome (I67.841)
- Spinal cord herniation (G95.89)
- Stroke (I63.-)
- Syringomyelia (G95.0)
Parent code
- G96.8Other specified disorders of central nervous systemHeader
More specific codes G96.81
Related codes
- G96.89Other specified disorders of central nervous systemBillable