CPT code 59050: Labor monitoring, consultant monitoring and report2026 Medicare rate & RVUs in Ohio

In Ohio, Medicare pays $43.94 for 59050 in a facility. There’s no office rate.

Check a contract rate as a % of Medicare · 59050 nationwide

Medicare allowed amount for participating (non-QP) physicians, before deductible, coinsurance and claim adjustments. Not a patient’s bill or a hospital charge.

What 59050 covers

A consulting physician other than the attending physician monitors fetal heart-rate and uterine-activity tracings during labor, assesses the findings, and provides a written report. This service may be requested when the laboring patient’s tracing needs an independent clinical assessment, such as evaluation of concerning fetal heart-rate patterns. It is performed in the labor and delivery setting and is distinct from antepartum fetal testing.

Report 59050 when the consultant performs the monitoring service and documents the findings in a written report; use 59051 when the requested service is interpretation only. The record should establish the physician’s consulting role, that the patient was in labor, the tracing assessed, and the resulting interpretation or recommendations. CMS assigns work, practice-expense, and malpractice relative values to the service; the applicable fee schedule rate is displayed separately.

This summary was written with AI assistance from CMS physician fee schedule data and checked against the CMS billing rules shown here. Rates on this page come directly from CMS files.

How Ohio compares for 59050

Across 109 of 109 payment localities, the facility rate for 59050 runs from $37.92 in Wisconsin to $58.47 in Miami, FL. Ohio pays $43.94. The RVUs are the same everywhere; the geographic indexes change the dollars.

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59050 rates by state

Office rate range in each state. Select a state to see its payment localities.

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How the 59050 rate is calculated

Each of 59050’s three RVUs is multiplied by a geographic index (GPCI) for the payment locality, added up, and multiplied by the conversion factor. Drag the indexes or enter a ZIP to see what moves the rate.

Payment rules and modifiers for 59050

59050 has no global surgery period, no multiple-procedure, bilateral or assistant-at-surgery adjustment, and no professional/technical split. What changes the payment is where the service happens: the place of service on the claim decides whether Medicare pays the office or the facility rate.

Codes related to 59050

Related codes aren’t interchangeable: bill the code that matches the service performed.

How 59050 has changed in Ohio

Price 59050 for an earlier date of service

Where the Ohio rate applies

Ohio is a Medicare payment area, not a city. Our Census mapping connects it to 1265 cities and communities in Ohio. Some span more than one payment area; confirm with the service ZIP.

• Aberdeen
• Ada
• Adamsville
• Addyston
• Adelphi
• Adena
• Ai
• Akron

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Where these rates come from

FeeBase calculates base physician payments from CMS work, practice-expense and malpractice RVUs, adjusted by each locality’s geographic indexes and the conversion factor. Services without a published rate are labeled, never given a made-up amount. Amounts are Medicare allowed amounts before claim adjustments: not a patient’s bill or a commercial rate.

CMS RVU26D · effective Oct 1, 2026 through the day before Jan 1, 2027

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