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CMS RVU26D · Effective 2026-10-01

59830 Septic abortion care Medicare reimbursement rates in Maine

Report this procedure when a septic abortion requires surgical completion, including evacuation of uterine contents to treat the infected pregnancy loss. Compare 59830 office and facility rates across CMS payment localities in Maine.

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 59830 in Maine?

Maine has 2 payment localities in this comparison. Use the service location to choose the applicable amount. These are the supported base rates for the 2 payment areas shown below, using the same CMS release.

Office / nonfacility

No supported rate

Facility setting

$382.32–$392.57

2 of 2 localities have a supported rate.

Lowest: Rest Of Maine

Highest: Southern Maine

A spread of $10.25 per service.

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.

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Obstetrics and gynecology

About 59830: Surgical treatment of septic abortion

Report this procedure when a septic abortion requires surgical completion, including evacuation of uterine contents to treat the infected pregnancy loss.

This code describes surgical treatment of an abortion complicated by infection, with evacuation of uterine contents to complete treatment. An obstetrician-gynecologist typically performs the procedure in a hospital or other acute-care facility when the patient needs operative management of the infected pregnancy loss. The clinical record should establish the infection and its relationship to the abortion, the reason surgical treatment was needed, and the procedure performed.

Select this code for septic abortion treatment, rather than routine surgical completion of a nonseptic incomplete or missed abortion. The major-surgery global period includes the day-before preoperative visit and 90 days of related postoperative care. When multiple procedures occur in the same session, the highest-valued procedure is paid in full and other procedures are subject to the standard 50% reduction. An assistant at surgery is payable only when medical necessity is documented; co-surgeon and team-surgery billing are not permitted for this code.

CMS billing rules for 59830

Global period
Major surgery with a 90-day global period: the day-before preoperative visit and 90 days of related postoperative care are included.
Multiple procedures
Standard multiple procedure reduction: the highest-valued procedure is paid in full and others at 50% when performed in the same session.
Bilateral procedures
Bilateral adjustment does not apply; the descriptor or anatomy makes modifier 50 inappropriate.
Assistant at surgery
Assistant at surgery is paid only with documentation of medical necessity.
Co-surgeons
Co-surgeons not permitted.
Team surgery
Team surgery not permitted.

Where the value comes from

  • Work RVU6.43 · 51%
  • Practice expense (office) RVU4.06 · 32%
  • Malpractice RVU2.06 · 16%

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.

59830 compared with similar codes

Office rates for Maine, from the same CMS release.

59812

Miscarriage treatment

Incomplete, surgical completion

$328.58–$340.99

59812 is for surgical treatment of an incomplete abortion. Use 59830 when infection complicates the abortion and is the reason for surgical treatment.

59820

Miscarriage care

Missed abortion, first trimester

$394.70–$411.04

59820 describes surgical management of a missed abortion. It is not the septic-abortion treatment code.

59840

Induced abortion d&c

No office rate

59840 describes an induced abortion by dilation and curettage. Code 59830 instead addresses surgical treatment of an abortion complicated by infection.

59841

Induced abortion dilat&evac

No office rate

59841 describes induced abortion by dilation and evacuation, not treatment of a septic abortion.

Compare 59830 by payment locality

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2 of 2 payment localities

Office and facility base rates · shared scale starting at $0

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59830 billing questions

How is this different from surgical treatment of an incomplete abortion?

Use this code when infection complicates the abortion and surgical treatment is performed. Code 59812 describes surgical treatment of an incomplete abortion without that septic-abortion indication.

What documentation supports reporting this code?

Document the infection associated with the abortion, the clinical reason for surgical treatment, and the operative steps used to complete treatment.

Are related postoperative visits separately included?

The 90-day global period includes related postoperative care for 90 days and the preoperative visit on the day before surgery.

How is this code paid when another procedure is performed in the same session?

Under the standard multiple procedure reduction, the highest-valued procedure is paid in full and other procedures are paid at 50%.

Can an assistant or another surgeon bill with this procedure?

An assistant at surgery is payable only with documentation of medical necessity. Co-surgeons and team surgery are not permitted for this code.

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.

RVUs for 59830PPRRVU2026_Oct_nonQPP.csv, line 6,676 (RVU26D)