Ob-Gyn Coding Alert

Obstetrics:

Untangle Your Trickiest Twin Delivery Claims

Babies born on different calendar dates? Here’s what to do. How should you report a twin cesarean delivery? The answer: 59510 with modifier 22 attached if the documentation supports significant additional work. But that may not always be the case. What should you do when twins are born on different calendar dates — or calendar years, in the case of [...]
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