No office rate
Use 59050 when the consultant performs monitoring and provides a written report. Use 59051 for interpretation only.
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CMS RVU26D · Effective 2026-10-01
59050 Labor monitoring Medicare reimbursement rates in Illinois
Reports a consulting physician’s fetal monitoring during labor, including assessment of the tracing and a written report to the care team. Compare 59050 office and facility rates across CMS payment localities in Illinois.
Amounts below use the non-QP conversion factor for participating physicians. These are base physician payments before claim-level adjustments, not patient costs or total hospital charges.
What does Medicare pay for 59050 in Illinois?
Illinois has 4 payment localities in this comparison. Use the service location to choose the applicable amount. These are the supported base rates for the 4 payment areas shown below, using the same CMS release.
Office / nonfacility
No supported rate
Facility setting
$48.95–$56.34
4 of 4 localities have a supported rate.
These are locality ranges, not averages or address-specific quotes. A facility-setting amount covers the physician service; it does not include a hospital’s separate bill. Choose a locality below to inspect its calculation, compare other payment areas, or price a percentage of Medicare.
Where 59050 pays more and less in Illinois
Obstetrics
About 59050: Labor fetal monitoring with report
Reports a consulting physician’s fetal monitoring during labor, including assessment of the tracing and a written report to the care team.
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.
Where the value comes from
- Work RVU0.87 · 65%
- Practice expense (office) RVU0.19 · 14%
- Malpractice RVU0.27 · 20%
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.
59050 compared with similar codes
Office rates for Illinois, from the same CMS release.
$50.60–$56.75
59025 is an antepartum non-stress test. 59050 concerns a consultant’s monitoring service during labor.
$72.46–$81.41
59020 reports a contraction stress test for fetal assessment; 59050 reports consultant monitoring during labor.
Compare 59050 by payment locality
Find the payment area for your service address, then open its rate page for calculation inputs, release history and the percentage-of-Medicare tool. A city may cross payment-area boundaries; the ZIP lookup above helps resolve the location.
4 of 4 payment localities
Chicago →
Office / nonfacility
Unavailable
Facility
$56.34
East St. Louis →
Office / nonfacility
Unavailable
Facility
$53.06
Rest Of Illinois →
Office / nonfacility
Unavailable
Facility
$48.95
Suburban Chicago →
Office / nonfacility
Unavailable
Facility
$51.76
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59050 billing questions
How does 59050 differ from 59051?
59050 is for the consultant’s monitoring service with a written report. Choose 59051 when the consultant interprets the fetal monitoring but does not provide the monitoring service.
Can the attending physician report 59050?
The code describes labor monitoring by a consulting physician other than the attending physician. The documentation should make the consultant’s role clear.
Does 59050 cover an antepartum non-stress test?
No. It concerns fetal monitoring during labor; 59025 describes a fetal non-stress test, an antepartum testing service.
What documentation supports reporting 59050?
Document that the patient was in labor, the physician served as a consultant, the fetal tracing was monitored, and the findings were communicated in a written report.
Where these rates come from
FeeBase calculates base physician payments from CMS work, practice-expense, and malpractice RVUs, adjusted by each locality’s geographic indices and the applicable conversion factor. Unavailable or separately priced services are labeled rather than assigned a made-up amount.
Source: RVU26D. Effective 2026-10-01 through the day before 2027-01-01.
6,63259025,26,Fetal non-stress test,A,,0.52,0.23,,0.23,,0.13,0.88,0.88,1,000,0.00,0.00,0.00,0,0,0,0,0,9,,33.4009,09,0,99,0.00,0.00,0.00
6,63359025,TC,Fetal non-stress test,A,,0.00,0.62,,0.62,NA,0.01,0.63,0.63,1,000,0.00,0.00,0.00,0,0,0,0,0,9,,33.4009,01,0,99,0.00,0.00,0.00
6,63459030,,Fetal scalp blood sampling,A,,1.94,0.41,NA,0.41,,0.61,2.96,2.96,0,000,0.00,0.00,0.00,2,0,0,0,0,9,,33.4009,09,0,99,0.00,0.00,0.00
6,63559050,,Fetal monitor w/report,A,,0.87,0.19,NA,0.19,,0.27,1.33,1.33,0,XXX,0.00,0.00,0.00,0,0,0,0,0,9,,33.4009,09,0,99,0.00,0.00,0.00
6,63659051,,Fetal monitor/interpret only,A,,0.72,0.15,NA,0.15,,0.22,1.09,1.09,0,XXX,0.00,0.00,0.00,0,0,0,0,0,9,,33.4009,09,0,99,0.00,0.00,0.00
6,63759070,,Transabdom amnioinfus w/us,A,,5.11,5.34,,1.51,,1.63,12.08,8.25,0,000,0.00,0.00,0.00,2,0,2,0,0,9,,33.4009,09,0,99,0.00,0.00,0.00
6,63859072,,Umbilical cord occlud w/us,A,,8.77,2.28,NA,2.28,,2.81,13.86,13.86,0,000,0.00,0.00,0.00,2,0,1,0,0,9,,33.4009,09,0,99,0.00,0.00,0.00