Coding for Intrapartum Care and Other Obstetrical Services

For family physicians providing routine maternity care, the issue of coding for services rendered has resulted in questions and confusion. Likewise, many family physicians who provide nonroutine maternity care find coding such services equally perplexing, in part because none of the existing CPT codes describe complicated prenatal or intrapartum care. Coding difficulties, in turn, create difficulties in getting third-party payers to recognize or reimburse these services.