G93.6 is the authoritative medical code for Cerebral edema. This classification is used in medical billing and clinical recording to specify the clinical criteria for cerebral edema (ICD-10-CM G93.6), ensuring healthcare documentation aligns with 2026 federal coding standards.
Billing Status: YES. This is a valid, specific, and billable ICD-10-CM reference.
Official Registry Overview & Definition
Cerebral edema is a billable ICD-10-CM diagnosis code G93.6. Excludes1 (not coded here): cerebral edema due to birth injury P11.0; traumatic cerebral edema S06.1-.
Official Tabular Instructional Notes
Sequencing, inclusion, and exclusion notes published for G93.6 in the official ICD-10-CM tabular list.
Excludes1 — Not Coded Here
Conditions that can never be reported with this code; the two are mutually exclusive.
- cerebral edema due to birth injury P11.0
- traumatic cerebral edema S06.1-
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) & Clinical Guidance
What can't be coded together with G93.6?
Per Excludes1 instructions, G93.6 must not be reported with: cerebral edema due to birth injury (P11.0); traumatic cerebral edema (S06.1-).
Codes in This Family (10)
Official ICD-10-CM classifications in the same code family as G93.6, with their registry titles.
- G93 — Other disorders of brain
- G93.0 — Cerebral cysts
- G93.1 — Anoxic brain damage, not elsewhere classified
- G93.2 — Benign intracranial hypertension
- G93.3 — Postviral and related fatigue syndromes
- G93.4 — Other and unspecified encephalopathy
- G93.5 — Compression of brain
- G93.7 — Reye's syndrome
- G93.8 — Other specified disorders of brain
- G93.9 — Disorder of brain, unspecified
Indexed Clinical Terms (7)
Clinical term phrases from the official ICD-10-CM Index to Diseases and Injuries that map to this code.
- Edema, edematous (infectious) (pitting) (toxic), brain (cytotoxic) (vasogenic)
- Edema, edematous (infectious) (pitting) (toxic), intracranial
- Effusion, brain (serous)
- Effusion, cerebral
- Effusion, cerebrospinal, vessel
- Effusion, intracranial
- Leukoencephalopathy, reversible, posterior
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ICD Code G97.6
Postprocedural hematoma and seroma of a nervous system organ or structure following a procedure