Is Your Global Maternity Billing Capturing Every Reimbursable Service?
Global maternity billing can make OB-GYN reimbursement look simpler than it actually is. A practice may bill a global maternity package and assume that most pregnancy-related services are automatically covered under one payment. But global maternity billing has specific rules about what is included, what may be separately reportable, and what requires careful documentation. That creates an important revenue-cycle question: Is your practice capturing every service that is actually reimbursable, while correctly keeping bundled services inside the global package? The answer requires more than checking whether the global maternity claim was accepted. It requires reviewing the entire pregnancy episode, including antepartum services, delivery, postpartum care, additional procedures, high-risk services, diagnostics, payer requirements, and documentation. What Does Global Maternity Billing Actually Include? Global obstetric codes can cover a broad package of services. For example, total obstet...
