CPT^® 59400, Under Vaginal Delivery, Antepartum and Postpartum Care Procedures

The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT^®) code 59400 as maintained by American Medical Association, is a medical procedural code under the range - Vaginal Delivery, Antepartum and Postpartum Care Procedures.

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In this global service, the provider and nonphysician healthcare providers in the practice provide all of the antepartum care, admission to the hospital for delivery, labor management, including induction of labor, fetal monitoring, use of low forceps and episiotomy, vaginal delivery of the fetus and placenta, and inpatient and outpatient postpartum care. Typical global services begin at eight to ten weeks gestation, with a full term vaginal delivery at thirty–nine to forty weeks gestation, and routine outpatient postpartum care forsix weeks following delivery.

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Ohio Medicaid as secondary biller to global OB

[QUOTE="Lb6731@hotmail.com, post: 515155, member: 500864"] Hello Everyone, Does anyone know the answer or know where to find the answer regarding Ohio Medicaid's payment, as a secondary payer, to the... [ Read More ]

Ohio Medicaid as secondary biller to global OB

Hello Everyone, Does anyone know the answer or know where to find the answer regarding Ohio Medicaid's payment, as a secondary payer, to the global OB codes that have to be billed to the commercial p... [ Read More ]

When to add 52 mod to global OB billing

Hello Everyone, Any advice as to when to add a 52 modifier to the global OB code of 59400 or 59510? I was taught that if the provider did not perform 10+ ante partum visits, and/or the patient deliv... [ Read More ]

Assistant Surgeon (80, 81)

For deliveries, typically the primary obgyn is billing for global maternity. If the physician on standby actually assists in the delivery, the op note of the primary obgyn should indicate who that wa... [ Read More ]

Hospital discharge code after vaginal delivery

Discharge is included in package so far as I'm aware. At my practice (we are not a hospital, our CNM's do deliveries at the hospital, we only bill for the CNM's services) we use placeholder codes for ... [ Read More ]

Hospital discharge code after vaginal delivery

I have a provider billing the delivery code 59400 with the hospital discharge code 99239. Is the delivery code inclusive of the discharge? Thanks in advance to any assistance.... [ Read More ]

stillborn delivery at 20 5/7 weeks

[QUOTE="sknapp56, post: 292425, member: 35809"] For a patient who had a fetal demise at 20 5/7 weeks due to fetal abnormalities and oligiohydraminos Cytotec was used for induction and still born fetus... [ Read More ]

Fetal Demise at 18 weeks

Hi, by this was not an induced labor, you mean it was spontaneous labor, ie a spontaneous abortion? Can you provide more information about the situation? If the patient came in in labor and delivere... [ Read More ]

Delivery with delivery of placenta in OR

[QUOTE="ccallycat, post: 505201, member: 381438"] Nope, that doesnt qualify 22. So the patient had vaginal delivery, but then had to go to OR for delivery of placenta. To me it seems like the placen... [ Read More ]

Coding Mercy Care deliveries

My Deliveries are getting denied from Mercy Care for the Global OB. I have gotten denied on 59400 and on 59510. Hopefully someone can help me on what Mercy Care needs?... [ Read More ]

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