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CPT® 59857, Under Abortion Procedures

The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code 59857 as maintained by American Medical Association, is a medical procedural code under the range - Abortion Procedures.

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In this global procedure, the provider terminates a pregnancy by inserting vaginal suppositories to induce labor contractions and may also insert a laminaria to dilate the cervix. In this service, the patient fails to abort the fetus and the provider performs surgical removal of the fetus and the placenta via an incision into the uterus, like a cesarean delivery. The provider admits the patient to the hospital, inserts the drug and cervical dilator, manages the labor that follows, and then performs the incision into the uterus. The provider then follows the patient in the hospital until discharge. Providers use this method usually after the first trimester, fourteen weeks and zero days gestation or more.

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How to code for Early Elective Delivery
Hello, looking for advice on how best to code for Elective Delivery. On other forums I saw someone advised using codes 59850-59857. Are abortions considered early elective delivery?... [ 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 ]
Hysteroscopic removal of products of conception via MyoSure REACH
Sharon is definitely pointing you in the right direction. Myosure is simply a tool, and does not change the coding. 58558 would not be correct here. You most likely need something from the 59812-5... [ Read More ]
OB Delivery ?
[b]OB delivery[/b] according to ACOG guidelines delivery codes can only be used after 20 weeks. if vaginal suppositories were used to induce labor codes 59855-59857 are used.... [ Read More ]
59850, 59851, 59855, 59856
[B]Medical Policy Bulletin ___________________[/B]_____________________ [B]Title: Elective Abortion[/B] Policy #: 11.06.02e ________________________________________ The Company makes decisions o... [ Read More ]
CPT coding for inducing labor
Oh come on, I am not trying to diagnose a condition or treat it. I am giving the suggestion to correlate the documented clinical condition and the documented procedure in the birthing center and trans... [ Read More ]
CPT coding for inducing labor
The purpose of introducing Foley's catheter into the uterine cavity (extra amniotic), is to stimulate the uterus to release of prostaglandin to intiate the labor/abortion, whatever the case is.- INTRO... [ Read More ]
fetal demise
I wish it could be reported as CLASSICAL CESAREAN WHICH TAKES THE SAME COD ENUMBER OF LSCS 59514. BUT UNFORTUNATELY IT CANNOT BE because the fetal demise at 17weeks takes it to ABORTION AND NOT DELI... [ Read More ]
Medical induction for labor.
I have been taught to bill out all inductions with 59200 which according to the CPT book is for insertion of a cervical dilator. I don't believe I am doing this correctly. Sometimes the physician is u... [ Read More ]
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