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Guide updated Sept. 2025

This guide addresses CPT® coding for maternity care services. It covers coding for professional services performed by physicians and other qualified health care professionals including Certified Nurse Midwives in obstetrics, family medicine, and maternal-fetal medicine.

It describes how to code for global maternity care, antepartum care only, delivery services only, postpartum care only, and itemized services when care is split between providers or payers. It describes what is bundled (not separately reported) and what is excluded – (potentially separately reported).

If all pregnant women entered the practice at 8 weeks, received all their prenatal and postpartum visits and delivery from the same practice, coding would be easy. However, patients move, change insurance, and sometimes deliver unexpectedly away from home.  And there are typical services that can be billed in addition to the maternity care package.

Table of Contents

• General Overview: Maternity Care Coding
• Coding Maternity Care and Delivery
• Included in the global package
• Separately Reportable Services
• High Risk Maternity Care or Complications of Pregnancy
• Antepartum care
• Delivery only Services
• Postpartum care
• Professional Services Coding for Maternity Admissions and Delivery
• Maternity Care Scenarios