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G97.0

Billable

Cerebrospinal fluid leak from spinal puncture

This code does not map to an HCC category in any model (V28, V24, ESRD, RxHCC).

What This Code Means

Leakage of cerebrospinal fluid that occurs as a complication following a spinal tap procedure.

Coding Tips

  • •This code requires documentation that the CSF leak is a direct result of spinal puncture
  • •Link this code to the procedure code for spinal puncture to establish the causal relationship

Code Also

  • any associated diagnoses or complications, such as:
  • intracranial hypotension following a procedure (G97.83-G97.84)

Code Hierarchy

└G97Intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of nervous system, not elsewhere classified└G97.0Cerebrospinal fluid leak from spinal puncture
└G97.0Cerebrospinal fluid leak from spinal puncture

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