CPT code 59410: Vaginal delivery, postpartum care included2026 Medicare rate & RVUs in Washington, DC area

In Washington, DC area, Medicare pays $1,060.80 for 59410 in a facility. There’s no office rate.

Check a contract rate as a % of Medicare · 59410 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 59410 covers

This service covers a vaginal birth, with or without episiotomy or forceps, plus postpartum care. Obstetricians, family physicians, and other qualified clinicians may report it when they provide the delivery and postpartum portion of maternity care, but not antepartum care. It is commonly furnished during an inpatient labor-and-delivery admission.

Choose 59410 when care includes vaginal delivery and postpartum follow-up but excludes antepartum management; 59409 represents delivery without postpartum care, while 59400 includes antepartum care as well. Documentation should establish the delivery, any delivery intervention, and provision of postpartum care. CMS identifies this as a maternity code, so the usual global surgery rules do not apply. If multiple procedures are performed in the same session, the highest-valued procedure is paid in full and the others at 50%.

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 Washington, DC area compares for 59410

Across 109 of 109 payment localities, the facility rate for 59410 runs from $845.69 in Wisconsin to $1,256.05 in Miami, FL. Washington, DC area pays $1,060.80. The RVUs are the same everywhere; the geographic indexes change the dollars.

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59410 rates by state

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

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How the 59410 rate is calculated

Each of 59410’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 59410

The CMS indicators that decide how 59410 is paid alongside other services.

What modifiers do to the payment

When to use modifier 51

Codes related to 59410

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

How 59410 has changed in Washington, DC area

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Where the Washington, DC area rate applies

Washington, DC area is a Medicare payment area, not a city. Our Census mapping connects it to 1 cities and communities in District of Columbia. Some span more than one payment area; confirm with the service ZIP.

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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.

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