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I67.4 vs S06

I67.4 (Hypertensive encephalopathy) compared with S06 (Intracranial injury), from the official CMS tabular data.

Summary

These codes should not be reported together because I67.4’s tabular entry lists S06 under Excludes1.

Official rule
What is different?

The conditions named, billing status and chapter.I67.4 is “Hypertensive encephalopathy”; S06 is “Intracranial injury”. S06 is a non-billable header; I67.4 is billable. I67.4 sits in I00-I99 — Diseases of the Circulatory System (I00-I99); S06 in S00-T88 — Injury, Poisoning and Certain Other Consequences of External Causes (S00-T88).

Registry fact

Can these codes be reported together?

No.I67.4’s entry carries an Excludes1 note covering S06: “traumatic intracranial hemorrhage (S06.-)”. Both may be reported only when the documentation shows the two conditions are unrelated to each other (ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines, Section I.A.12.a).

Official ruleGuide: Excludes1 vs Excludes2

Is there an Excludes1 relationship?

Yes.I67.4’s tabular entry: “traumatic intracranial hemorrhage (S06.-)”. The note covers S06.

Official ruleGuide: Excludes1 vs Excludes2

Is there an Excludes2 relationship?

None.Neither entry carries an Excludes2 note that names the other code. I67.4 carries 2 Excludes2 notes and S06 carries 9 Excludes2 notes covering other codes; the side-by-side table quotes them.

Official rule

Is one more specific?

Not comparable.The codes sit in different categories; specificity is only comparable within one category.

Is one a parent or header code?

One is a header.S06 is a non-billable header, but I67.4 is not one of its subdivisions.

Registry fact

Are there sequencing instructions?

None.Neither entry carries a Code First or Use Additional Code note that names the other.

Official rule

Are there other coding relationships?

None found.No laterality, encounter-phase, Table of Neoplasms, Table of Drugs and Chemicals, or history-versus-active-disease relationship links these codes.

MedCoder-derived

Official rule: a tabular instructional note or a section of the ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines, quoted as published. Registry fact: the codes’ own published attributes (titles, billable status, position in the hierarchy, code set). MedCoder-derived: a reading MedCoder computes from those facts; it is not itself a rule. How to read the labels

Can these codes be reported together?

Excludes1 — generally not reported together

Excludes1 conflict

I67.4
Hypertensive encephalopathy
↔
S06
Intracranial injury

What we found

No — do not report together.I67.4 carries an Excludes1 note covering S06: “traumatic intracranial hemorrhage (S06.-)”

Sole exception: when the two conditions are documented as unrelated to each other (ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines, Section I.A.12.a).

What to review

Report one of the two. Both may be reported only when the documentation shows the two conditions are unrelated to each other.

Guide: Excludes1 vs Excludes2Check these on a claim

Why it matters

An Excludes1 note means the two conditions are not ordinarily reported together for the same encounter, because the classification treats them as mutually exclusive forms of the same condition. The documented exception is when the two conditions are unrelated to each other.

Source / rule

CMS ICD-10-CM tabular instructional notes; ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines, Section I.A.12.a

Official guidance behind these answers

  • Section I.A.12.a — Excludes1 · applies to: Excludes1

    A type 1 Excludes note is a pure excludes note. It means “NOT CODED HERE!” An Excludes1 note indicates that the code excluded should never be used at the same time as the code above the Excludes1 note. An Excludes1 is used when two conditions cannot occur together, such as a congenital form versus an acquired form of the same condition. An exception to the Excludes1 definition is the circumstance when the two conditions are unrelated to each other. If it is not clear whether the two conditions involving an Excludes1 note are related or not, query the provider. For example, code F45.8, Other somatoform disorders, has an Excludes1 note for "sleep related teeth grinding (G47.63)," because "teeth grinding" is an inclusion term under F45.8. Only one of these two codes should be assigned for teeth grinding. However psychogenic dysmenorrhea is also an inclusion term under F45.8, and a patient could have both this condition and sleep related teeth grinding. In this case, the two conditions are clearly unrelated to each other, and so it would be appropriate to report F45.8 and G47.63 together.

    ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines FY2026

Quoted from the ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting in effect for the release shown. The tabular notes above are the code-level instruction; these sections are the convention that says how such a note is applied. Source document (CMS PDF) · Release and checksum

Side by side

I67.4Hypertensive encephalopathyS06Intracranial injury
Billing statusBillableNon-billable header

Report instead: S06.0X0A, S06.0X0D, S06.0X0S, S06.0X1A, S06.0X1D

ClassificationI00-I99 — Diseases of the Circulatory System (I00-I99)S00-T88 — Injury, Poisoning and Certain Other Consequences of External Causes (S00-T88)
DefinitionHypertensive encephalopathy is a billable ICD-10-CM diagnosis code (I67.4).Intracranial injury is a non-billable ICD-10-CM category code (S06).
7th character—The appropriate 7th character is to be added to each code from category S06, except as noted below
Includes—
traumatic brain injury
injuries of ear
injuries of eye
injuries of face [any part]
Excludes1
Occlusion and stenosis of cerebral artery causing cerebral infarction (I63.3-I63.5-)
Occlusion and stenosis of precerebral artery causing cerebral infarction (I63.2-)
traumatic intracranial hemorrhage (S06.-)
head injury NOS (S09.90)
Excludes2
insufficiency, NOS, of precerebral arteries (G45.2)
sequelae of the listed conditions (I69.8)
burns and corrosions (T20-T32)
effects of foreign body in ear (T16)
effects of foreign body in larynx (T17.3)
effects of foreign body in mouth NOS (T18.0)
effects of foreign body in nose (T17.0-T17.1)
effects of foreign body in pharynx (T17.2)
effects of foreign body on external eye (T15.-)
frostbite (T33-T34)
insect bite or sting, venomous (T63.4)
Use additional code
code to identify presence of:
alcohol abuse and dependence (F10.-)
exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (Z77.22)
code, if applicable, to identify mild neurocognitive disorders due to known physiological condition (F06.7-)
Code also
, if applicable, associated hypertensive conditions such as:
essential (primary) hypertension (I10)
hypertensive chronic kidney disease (I12.-)
hypertensive heart and chronic kidney disease (I13.-)
hypertensive heart disease (I11.-)
any associated:
open wound of head (S01.-)
skull fracture (S02.-)
for any associated infection

Notes are the code’s own tabular entry, quoted as published. A note that names the other code is the one the verdict above rests on.

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Derived from the official CMS ICD-10-CM tabular data (FY2027). A coding-rule comparison, not billing advice: payer-specific edits and medical-necessity policy are outside its scope. All data sources