G97.4
Accidental puncture and laceration of a nervous system organ or structure during a procedure
G97.4 is a non-billable ICD-10-CM code header for accidental puncture and laceration of a nervous system organ or structure during 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 G97.41 Accidental puncture or laceration of dura during a procedure, G97.48 Accidental puncture and laceration of other nervous system organ or structure during a nervous system procedure and G97.49 Accidental puncture and laceration of other nervous system organ or structure during other procedure. Its coding notes include 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.
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)
More specific codes under G97.4 3
- G97.41Accidental puncture or laceration of dura during a procedureBillable
- G97.48Accidental puncture and laceration of other nervous system organ or structure during a nervous system procedureBillable
- G97.49Accidental puncture and laceration of other nervous system organ or structure during other procedureBillable