The article, published on contemporaryobgyn.net, offers these ideas:
- Maternity care and delivery billing codes apply to antepartum care, delivery services and postpartum care in uncomplicated pregnancies
- There are codes to bill for antepartum care, delivery and postpartum care together, if the same provider performed all three, or for each component separately.
- A pregnancy confirmed during a problem-oriented or preventive visit should be billed using the appropriate evaluation and management code, such as an outpatient office visit.
- For delivery coding, 59610 is used to report routine OB care, including antepartum care, vaginal delivery and postpartum care, if the person has had a previous cesarean delivery. However, 59618 is used when a patient who previously had a cesarean delivery tries to deliver vaginally but has another caesarian delivery.
Read the full article here.
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