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How to bill assistant Fee's for Cesarean/Vaginal

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owenstonya

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Puyallup, WA
So our office has always billed the assistant charge for delivery's as either: 59514, 80 or 59409, 80.

I spoke with one of our PA's billing rep (from another office) who said she uses the global code (59510 or 59400) and just applied MOD.80, I'm a little confused since they did not follow the full pregnancy care... I am also curious which way is correct, we sometimes have a PA or partner MD for our assists and use just the delivery only code... could someone please help me understand?

Any help is greatly appreciated!
 
We bill the way you do - 59514 or 59409 with mod 80 for MD/DO assist or mod 81 for CNM assist. We have had no problems whatsoever billing like this. Also, like tmerickson said, the assist isn't providing all of the care so to bill the global code doesn't make sense.
 
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