CPT^® 59409, Under Vaginal Delivery, Antepartum and Postpartum Care Procedures

The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT^®) code 59409 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 procedure, the provider provides 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 on the same date of service.

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Assistant Surgeon (80, 81)

If billing 59409 for the assist, or even for a salpingectomy following a C-section, wouldn't that be the reason to use an 81 versus an 80–because they were not there for the entirety of the main pro... [ 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 ]

twin delivery two providers one vaginal on c section

I had a patient who delivered the first twin vaginal and then there was a shift change and another provider came in and they were having decelerations and the second twin was taken by csection with a ... [ Read More ]

Fetal Demise at 18 weeks

[QUOTE="COG2022, post: 508044, member: 805112"] One of our physicians had a patient deliver at 18 weeks vaginally. This was not an induced labor, the physician was there for the delivery. Everything... [ Read More ]

Coding for a vaginal delivery of a stillborn baby

Hello! We had an OB patient come into our ER and deliver a stillborn baby. We do not have OB here at our facility so I am unsure how to bill this correctly. I am going to bill a 59409 for Mom. Wha... [ Read More ]

CARESOURCE OHIO

[QUOTE="Lb6731@hotmail.com, post: 505159, member: 500864"] Happy New Year! Having issues billing maternity care with Caresource Ohio. Sometimes they pay the global billing ( ex: 59425, 59409, 59430... [ Read More ]

CARESOURCE OHIO

Happy New Year! Having issues billing maternity care with Caresource Ohio. Sometimes they pay the global billing ( ex: 59425, 59409, 59430) and sometimes they will only pay the ante partum (59425 o... [ Read More ]

Delivery only includes??

[QUOTE="samyjm13, post: 503155, member: 79156"] We are having some debate whether or not the subsequent hospital visits after delivery date and the discharge can or can not be billed. I have always ch... [ Read More ]

Delivery only includes??

We are having some debate whether or not the subsequent hospital visits after delivery date and the discharge can or can not be billed. I have always charged out the day after delivery visit and the d... [ Read More ]

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