CPT^® 59300, Under Repair Procedures for Maternity Care and Delivery

The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT^®) code 59300 as maintained by American Medical Association, is a medical procedural code under the range - Repair Procedures for Maternity Care and Delivery.

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The provider, other than the attending physician, incises the perineum with scissors or a scalpel, in a procedure known as an episiotomy, to ease the passage of the baby’s head during birth.

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Episiotomy breakdown CPT code assistance

[QUOTE="dmarshall, post: 505781, member: 14475"] Hello OB/GYN Group, This is a new patient seen in the clinic and delivered approximately 3 months ago by another physician who is not in our group, ho... [ Read More ]

Episiotomy breakdown CPT code assistance

Hello OB/GYN Group, This is a new patient seen in the clinic and delivered approximately 3 months ago by another physician who is not in our group, however she sustained an episiotomy during her del... [ Read More ]

Cervical Laceration after Vaginal delivery

If the repair was performed by the same provider who is providing global maternity, it would be included in the global per ACOG. This would make a good case for -22 on the maternity care code. NOTE: ... [ Read More ]

Cervical Laceration after Vaginal delivery

[TABLE] [TR] [TD][TABLE] [TR] [TD][TABLE] [TR] [TD][TABLE] [TR] [TD]Called to bedside by nursing secondary to patient having large amount of bleeding after delivery. Presented to bedside immediately. ... [ Read More ]

4th degree laceration with sphicteroplasty

Hello. Can one of you lovely experts make sure that I am coding the following CPT correctly. Patient delivered by her OBGYN- i am coding for the UROGYN who performed laceration repair. The EAS was id... [ Read More ]

OB patient had a 3rd degree perineal laceration midline ,3B

Thank you Cmama12 for your response! I am learning too from your experience.:) I confirm that for repair of 3rd degree laceration during a delivery by the same MD, we add a modifier -22. If the repair... [ Read More ]

Postpartum Vaginal Laceration Repair

Coding help please. This is a completely new situation for me: I have a CNM that billed out for a 59400. An OB (not part of our group) performed a repair at the time of delivery. 8 Days post-partu... [ Read More ]

Patient delivers then two days later they find a 2nd degree tear which they went in and repaired. CPT code would be?

[QUOTE="allowry5, post: 487389, member: 137644"] I reached out to my team and we have three codes. 59400, 59300, and 12041 [U][B]OP NOTE:[/B][/U] [B]Date of Procedure:[/B]　1/18/2021 [B]Pre-op ... [ Read More ]

Patient delivers then two days later they find a 2nd degree tear which they went in and repaired. CPT code would be?

I reached out to my team and we have three codes. 59400, 59300, and 12041 [U][B]OP NOTE:[/B][/U] [B]Date of Procedure:[/B]　1/18/2021 [B]Pre-op Diagnosis:[/B]　rectal mucosal tear after vag de... [ Read More ]

Global Delivery & Post Partum care

Patient delivers on the way to the hospital and the CNM only does laceration repair and placenta removal. Would I still code cpt 59400 or 59300 and 59414?... [ Read More ]

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