Payment in Practice: Conversations for OB/GYNs
ACOG's Payment in Practice provides scenarios for coding and billing for procedures typically performed by obstetrician-gynecologists directly from ACOG's Committee on Health Economics and Coding, or the CHEC. The CHEC Committee works to advocate for obstetrician-gynecologists and to ensure that physicians are paid fairly for their work. This podcast is a companion to ACOG's Payment in Practice webinar series.
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Episodes
19 episodes
Conversations with Coders: IUD Removal with Hysteroscopy
In this Payment in Practice podcast, tuned in for a discussion with expert coders as they discuss how to code IUD removal when a hysteroscope is used but the device is not embedded. In their conversation they reference the uses for different CP...
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Episode 16
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5:08
Conversation with Coders: Use of the 22 Modifier
In this episode of Payment in Practice, listen in to ACOG Senior Manager of Clinical Coding and expert coding consultant Brad Hart discuss how to code and seek appropriate reimbursement for unusually complex surgical cases, using the 22 modifie...
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Episode 15
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8:08
Bonus Episode! What's Going on with the New OB Codes?
In Sept 2025 the AMA CPT Editorial Panel voted to delete the OB global codes effective January 1, 2027 and in January 2026 the AMA RUC discussed the code...
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14:42
Conversations with Coders: Reporting VNOTES Services
In this Payment in Practice podcast, join us for another conversation with expert coders, Kehinde Taiwo and Brad Hart. In today's conversation listen in on how to report VNOTES (vaginal natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery) ser...
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Episode 14
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6:27
Conversations with Coders: Opportunistic Salpingectomy
In this episode of the Payment in Practice podcast, our coding experts have a conversation on how to report sterilization performed as a bilateral salpingectomy at the time of a scheduled repeat cesarean delivery. Tune in as they overview the p...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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7:39
Looking Ahead to 2026
In our twelfth episode of the Payment in Practice podcast, the Health and Payment Policy Team discusses their policy work in 2025 and looks ahead to their planned advocacy projects in 2026.Have any coding questions? Visit the
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25:23
Post-Event Interview from ACOG's 2025 In-Person Coding Workshop
In our eleventh episode of the Payment in Practice podcast, coders, physicians, and panelists who attended the Payment in Practice: In Person! conference discuss their experiences learning about coding and billing from the CHEC and ACOG’s Healt...
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4:41
Documentation
In our tenth episode of the Payment in Practice podcast, the CHEC committee’s Gwenn Jackson, MD, FACOG; Eilean Attwood MD, MPH, FACOG; and Lauren MacAfee, MD, FACOG discuss best practices for documentation to support coding for obstetrics and g...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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6:56
Coding Tips
In our ninth episode of the Payment in Practice podcast, the CHEC committee discusses things to remember when coding and documenting patient visits, and how to avoid common errors when doing so. Our CHEC experts include John Horton...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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9:12
From Residency to Private Practice
Meet Dr. Adrienne Zertuche, who went from residency to private practice. She talks about the advantages she enjoys being in a group practice, what she has learned and the importance of mentorship from the business of medicine perspective. ...
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18:28
Coding Advice
In our seventh episode of the Payment in Practice podcast, viewers will hear guidance on how to effectively and efficiently code for obstetric and gynecology services from the CHEC's Gwenn Jackson, MD, FACOG; Nichole Mahnert, MD, FACOG; David H...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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7:04
Bonus Episode! Perinatal Mental Health and Collaborative Care
This bonus episode for Payment in Practice provides actionable steps to establish a collaborative care model into obstetric practices for the management of perinatal mental health. Dr. Emily Miller, Director of the Division of Maternal Fetal Me...
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Season 1
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Episode 22
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28:16
Bonus Episode! Perinatal Mental Health and Tailored Prenatal Care
In our first ever bonus episode, we have a discussion with Dr. Alex Peahl, Assistant Profession of University of Michigan Health and a primary author of the new Tailored Prenatal Care guidance published by ACOG in May of 2025. We learn how the ...
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Season 1
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Episode 21
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26:44
Your First Year of Practice
In our sixth episode of the Payment in Practice podcast, viewers will hear about the practical considerations of billing and coding to understand when you’re first out of residence and beginning your practice! Viewers will hear fro...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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5:39
Business of Medicine
In our fifth episode of the Payment in Practice podcast, listeners will learn about the business of medicine from an interview with Grant Cox MD, FACOG, including why it's important to learn business principles as physicians regardless of their...
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25:44
The RUC Survey
In our fourth episode of the Payment in Practice podcast, viewers will learn about the RUC survey that is sent to ACOG members to determine the physician work and time for a modified or new procedure code. Viewers will hear about t...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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9:33
Relative Value Units (RVUs)
In our third episode of the Payment in Practice podcast, viewers will hear from the CHEC's Jon Hathaway, MD, PhD, FACOG about Relative Value Units, or RVUs, that are used to quantify the value of a physician’s services by insurance companies an...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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6:51
Global Coding Packages
In our second episode of the Payment in Practice podcast, viewers will learn about global coding packages, that are intended to ease the process of billing and coding by bundling the professional and ancillary services associated with a patient...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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11:20