Ob-Gyn Coding Alert

Key: Was ob-gyn monitoring the pregnancy? Do you know whether you should include or exclude a visit from the global ob package (59400-59622)? Find out with this quick coding challenge. Decide If Visit is Outside Global Ob Situation 1: The patient presents for her annual exam. The obgyn orders a pregnancy test because he suspects pregnancy. Is this visit inside or outside the global ob package? Answer 1: You should count this visit as outside the global ob package. The ob-gyn is not monitoring the pregnancy during this visit. Your claim should look like this: the annual exam (99384-99386 for new patients, or 99394-99396 for established patients) linked to V72.31 (Routine gynecological examination) the diagnostic test (for instance, 81025, Urine pregnancy test, by visual color comparison methods) linked to V72.42 (Pregnancy examination or test, positive result). Remember: Reporting the routine pregnancy codes, V22.0 (Supervision of normal first pregnancy) or V22.1 [...]