S06.9
ICD-10Non-billable categoryUnspecified intracranial injury
Official ICD-10-CM descriptor (FY2026)
Unspecified intracranial injury
S06.9 is a category heading, not a billable code. CMS does not accept it on a claim; report one of the more specific codes beneath it.
Inclusion terms
- Brain injury NOS
- Head injury NOS with loss of consciousness
- Traumatic brain injury NOS
Excludes1
Not coded here. An Excludes1 code should never be reported at the same time as the code above it.
- conditions classifiable to S06.0- to S06.8-code to specified intracranial injury
- head injury NOS (S09.90)
ICD-10-CM FY2026 defines 1 code beneath S06.9. See the ICD-10-CM index for what this site publishes.
Related codes in S06
- S06.0Concussioncategory
- S06.1Traumatic cerebral edemacategory
- S06.2Diffuse traumatic brain injurycategory
- S06.3Focal traumatic brain injurycategory
- S06.4Epidural hemorrhagecategory
- S06.5Traumatic subdural hemorrhagecategory
- S06.6Traumatic subarachnoid hemorrhagecategory
- S06.8Other specified intracranial injuriescategory
- S06.ATraumatic brain compression and herniationcategory
Where this code sits
- Parent code
- S06
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ICD-10-CM FY2026. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) / National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), “2026 ICD-10-CM Code Descriptions in Tabular Order” (icd10cm_order_2026.txt). Download the original file from cms.gov. Public domain (US Government work). Descriptors, billable flags and instructional notes on this page are reproduced from that file without modification. Krasyn adds no clinical guidance.