If a patient presents to the labor and deliver floor with an order to rule out labor, the patient receives a non stress test. From those results, the patient is admitted or discharged to the facility. Can the facility charge 59025 and the physician charge 59025-26? The pregnancy is not preterm and the mother is healthy. Can you offer guidance of when and when not this should not be charged? Also, if a facility has a policy in place, can a NST be a standard test to evaluate the pregnancy...
NST CPT 59025
NST CPT 59025
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