Hello! I was hoping to get clarification that you can only bill for External Cephalic Version (CPT 59412) when the provider is manually rotating the baby from a Breech/ Footling presentation to a Cephalic presentation.
We had a situation where there was poor fetal decent due to the baby's Occiput Posterior presentation and the provider attempted manual rotation, but failed and ended up doing a vacuum-assisted delivery.
The provider documented a successful 45-degree rotation of the fetal head, but there was persistent OP presentation.
Also, what are the documentation requirements for billing External Cephalic Version?
Thank you!
We had a situation where there was poor fetal decent due to the baby's Occiput Posterior presentation and the provider attempted manual rotation, but failed and ended up doing a vacuum-assisted delivery.
The provider documented a successful 45-degree rotation of the fetal head, but there was persistent OP presentation.
Also, what are the documentation requirements for billing External Cephalic Version?
Thank you!