No office rate
Use 59051 for the consulting physician’s interpretation-only service. Use 59050 when the service includes interpretation and a report.
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CMS RVU26D · Effective 2026-10-01
59051 Fetal monitoring Medicare reimbursement rates in Michigan
Reports a consulting physician’s interpretation of fetal monitoring during labor when the service is limited to interpretation rather than interpretation with a report. Compare 59051 office and facility rates across CMS payment localities in Michigan.
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 59051 in Michigan?
Michigan 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
$36.92–$41.27
2 of 2 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.
Obstetric monitoring
About 59051: Intrapartum fetal tracing interpretation
Reports a consulting physician’s interpretation of fetal monitoring during labor when the service is limited to interpretation rather than interpretation with a report.
A physician consulted during labor reviews fetal monitoring, including the fetal heart-rate tracing, and provides a clinical interpretation. The service is specific to intrapartum monitoring; it is not an antepartum nonstress test or the performance of a procedure such as fetal scalp blood sampling. It may be relevant when the clinician managing labor requests another physician’s assessment of the tracing.
Choose this code when the service is interpretation only. Use 59050 when the consulting physician’s service includes interpretation and a report. Documentation should identify the labor-related consultation, the tracing assessed, the physician’s interpretation, and the resulting clinical assessment. The claim should represent the interpretation service actually provided, rather than the broader interpretation-and-report service.
Where the value comes from
- Work RVU0.72 · 66%
- Practice expense (office) RVU0.15 · 14%
- Malpractice RVU0.22 · 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.
59051 compared with similar codes
Office rates for Michigan, from the same CMS release.
$48.57–$52.65
59025 describes an antepartum nonstress test. 59051 concerns a physician’s interpretation of fetal monitoring during labor.
$69.71–$75.59
59020 is a contraction stress test used for antepartum fetal surveillance; 59051 is interpretation of intrapartum monitoring.
Compare 59051 by payment locality
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2 of 2 payment localities
Detroit →
Office / nonfacility
Unavailable
Facility
$41.27
Rest Of Michigan →
Office / nonfacility
Unavailable
Facility
$36.92
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59051 billing questions
How does 59051 differ from 59050?
59051 represents interpretation only. 59050 represents fetal monitoring during labor with interpretation and a report.
Can 59051 be used for an antepartum nonstress test?
No. 59051 is for interpretation of fetal monitoring during labor; 59025 describes an antepartum fetal nonstress test.
What should the record support?
Document the labor-related consultation, the tracing reviewed, the physician’s interpretation, and the resulting clinical assessment.
Does this code describe operating the fetal monitor?
No. It identifies the consulting physician’s interpretation-only service, not the technical act of monitoring.
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.
6,63359025,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
6,63959074,,Fetal fluid drainage w/us,A,,5.11,4.89,,1.51,,1.63,11.63,8.25,0,000,0.00,0.00,0.00,2,0,2,0,0,9,,33.4009,09,0,99,0.00,0.00,0.00