G97.8
Other intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of nervous system
Not billable — category only FY2026 2025-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Exclusions 9 never code together
G97code
G00-G99chapter
Excludes2
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)P04-P96
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)A00-B99
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)O00-O9A
- congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)Q00-Q99
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)E00-E88
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)S00-T88
- neoplasms (C00-D49)C00-D49
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)R00-R94
Excludes2 — not included here, but the patient may have both. Code both when documented.
Instructional notes 1
G97.8code
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Alongside this code 7 same parent — G97
G97.0 Cerebrospinal fluid leak from spinal puncture G97.1 Other reaction to spinal and lumbar puncture G97.2 Intracranial hypotension following ventricular shunting G97.3 Intraop hemor/hemtom of a nervous sys org comp a procedure category G97.4 Accidental pnctr & lac of a nervous system org dur proc category G97.5 Postproc hemor of a nervous sys org following a procedure category G97.6 Postproc hematoma and seroma of a nervous sys org fol a proc category
Subordinate codes 4
Medications 5
21 Intraoperative Complications drugs 693 Central Nervous System Diseases drugs 80 Central Nervous System Infections drugs 41 Bipolar and Related Disorders drugs 16 Autonomic Nervous System Diseases drugs
MED-RT files conditions by MeSH, which carves the world differently from ICD-10. These are name matches on this code's description, offered as candidates — not as an assertion that they are this code.
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