Inital OB visits

Can you bill inital/first OB visit?

Nov 30th, 2009 - Codapedia Editor 1,399

Initial OB visit

If the patient comes in to confirm their pregnancy, (a quick visit, urine test) then you can bill that.

Mostly patients already know if they are pregnant. Then they schedule the first OB visit. It is not separately reportable, but is part of the OB package.

Look at this ACOG article:

http://www.acog.org/departments/dept_notice.cfm?recno=6&bulletin=4666