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General
Chapter 1
Section 32
Hospital-Based
Birthing Room
Issue Date: May 23, 1988
Revision:
1.0 POLICY
1.1 Childbirth
service provided in a hospital-based outpatient birthing room for
an expected normal delivery shall be cost-shared as ambulatory surgery.
1.2 Maternity care for a normal,
uncomplicated pregnancy related to a planned childbirth in a hospital-based
outpatient birthing room is cost-shared as ambulatory surgery.
1.3 The hospital-based outpatient
birthing room services and related maternity care are to be considered
one episode of maternity care for adjudication.
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