Wiki OBGYN Billing

[tcosborne]

I am new to OBGYN billing. I am needing some feedback on how the OB visits are tracked so there are not billed at every visit. I know much of this billing is global but needed some help on the flow of the visits and how they are tracked until time of appropriate billing.

 

[lscott]

We use the codes ROB and HROB (routine OB/High Risk OB) to indicate visits that are part of the antepartum global package with the V codes for supervision of pregnancy. They are a $0 charge, so the insurance is not billed. That way billing can track the number of prenatal visits, especially in the event the patient transfers care out or is a late transfer of care in, or their insurance changes part-way through the pregnancy and we have to bill a split global.