S09.0

ICD-10Non-billable category

Injury of blood vessels of head, not elsewhere classified

Official ICD-10-CM descriptor (FY2026)

Injury of blood vessels of head, not elsewhere classified

S09.0 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.

Excludes1

Not coded here. An Excludes1 code should never be reported at the same time as the code above it.

  • injury of cerebral blood vessels (S06.-)
  • injury of precerebral blood vessels (S15.-)

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S09

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Source

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.

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