G97.3
Intraoperative hemorrhage and hematoma of a nervous system organ or structure complicating a procedure
G97.3 is a non-billable ICD-10-CM code header for intraoperative hemorrhage and hematoma of a nervous system organ or structure complicating a procedure. Report a more specific code from it instead. It is part of the FY2027 code set, effective October 1, 2026. The more specific codes under it are G97.31 Intraoperative hemorrhage and hematoma of a nervous system organ or structure complicating a nervous system procedure and G97.32 Intraoperative hemorrhage and hematoma of a nervous system organ or structure complicating other procedure. Its coding notes include 1 Excludes1 entry and 9 Excludes2 entries.
Guidelines tip
From the FY2027 Official Guidelines. ICD10Ref adds no rules of its own.
Intraoperative and postprocedural complications are coded from the body system chapters unless the complication is specifically indexed to a T code.
Excludes1
Not coded here. The listed conditions generally should not be reported together.
- intraoperative hemorrhage and hematoma of a nervous system organ or structure due to accidental puncture and laceration during a procedure (G97.4-)
Excludes2
Not included here. Both codes may be reported if the patient has both conditions.
Also from chapter/block level (8 notes)
- certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
- certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
- complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
- congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
- injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
- neoplasms (C00-D49)
- symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)