Wiki What to charge for a failed delivery

[missyah20]

Good Afternoon,
I have a case where our anesthesia provider was called in to do an epidural for a labor and delivery. He inserted the epidural, but the patient did not deliver and was later released from the hospital. How would you code this?

Thanks!

 

[cindyt]

We use the diagnosis of failed trial of labor 660.63. Since the patient received an epidural then you can bill 01967.

 

[darlenemusser]

We bill with the same codes in our office.

Darlene Musser, CPC, CANPC