959.01 HEAD INJURY NOS

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Code Information

Diagnosis Code: 959.01

Short Description: Head injury NOS

Long Description: Head injury, unspecified

Code Classification:

Injury and poisoning (800–999)
- Certain traumatic complications and unspecified injuries (958-959)
  - 959 Injury, other and unspecified
    - 959.01 Head injury NOS

Code Version: 2015 ICD-9-CM

References to Index of Diseases and Injuries

The code 959.01 has the following ICD-9-CM references to the Index of Diseases and Injuries

Injury 959.9
- head NEC� 959.01
  - with
    - loss of consciousness 850.5
    - skull fracture - see Fracture, skull, by site

Crosswalk Information

The code 959.01 converts into the following ICD-10 code(s):

ICD-9 Code		ICD-10 Code	ICD-10 Description
959.01		S09.8XXA	Other specified injuries of head, initial encounter
959.01		S09.90XA	Unspecified injury of head, initial encounter

This ICD-9 to ICD-10 data is based on the 2018 General Equivalency Mapping (GEM) files published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for informational purposes only. The data is not an ICD-10 conversion tool and doesn’t guarantee clinical accuracy.

Similar Codes

ICD-9 Code	ICD-9 Description
959.09	Injury of face and neck
959.11	Other injury of chest wall
959.12	Other injury of abdomen
959.13	Fracture of corpus cavernosum penis
959.14	Other injury of external genitals
959.19	Other injury of other sites of trunk
959.2	Shoulder and upper arm injury
959.3	Elbow, forearm, and wrist injury
959.4	Hand, except finger injury
959.5	Finger injury
959.6	Hip and thigh injury
959.7	Knee, leg, ankle, and foot injury
959.8	Other specified sites, including multiple injury
959.9	Unspecified site injury

This page was last updated on: 10/1/2014

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