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5 Scenarios Define the Difference Between NSTs and Labor Checks

Published on Tue Jun 20, 2017

Here’s when you should include the NST in the global period or hospital admission. Your ob-gyn performs a fetal non-stress test (NST). So you should report 59025, right? Not so fast. Although ob-gyns can perform NSTs and should be reimbursed for it, you need to know when the ob-gyn is simply using the device to determine if the patient is [...]
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