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S06 - Intracranial injury


The ICD 10 Code for Intracranial injury is listed as S06.
Additional information concerning this code and description can be found below including ICD 9 crosswalks / GEMS, chapter information, and DRGs where available.

ICD 10 CM Field Value
Diagnosis Code: S06
Description: Intracranial injury
  • Includes: traumatic brain injury
  • Code also any associated:
  • open wound of head (S01.-)
  • skull fracture (S02.-)
  • Excludes1: head injury NOS (S09.90)
  • The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category S06
  • A - initial encounter
  • D - subsequent encounter
  • S - sequela
Chapter Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
ICD-10-CM Children (deeper level / typically more specific) of S06:
S06.0 - Concussion
S06.1 - Traumatic cerebral edema
S06.2 - Diffuse traumatic brain injury
S06.3 - Focal traumatic brain injury
S06.4 - Epidural hemorrhage
S06.5 - Traumatic subdural hemorrhage
S06.6 - Traumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage
S06.8 - Other specified intracranial injuries
S06.9 - Unspecified intracranial injury