For more than 30 years, obstetric care has been billed through a single global code covering antepartum, delivery, and postpartum services. Effective January 1, 2027, the American Medical Association (AMA) replaces that bundled model with a restructured set of Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) maternity care codes. The update deletes 17 codes, adds 12, and revises 6, reorganizing reporting around four distinct phases: antepartum, labor management, delivery, and postpartum.
This one-hour webinar prepares American College of Osteopathic Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOOG) members for the shift. Faculty walk through the new code structure, the move to per-encounter evaluation and management (E/M) reporting for antepartum care, daily labor management reporting, and the documentation practices needed to bill accurately and withstand payer scrutiny. Attendees leave with a clear view of what changes, when, and how to ready their workflows before the January 2027 effective date.
Have your questions answered
Bring your coding questions. Faculty address real reporting scenarios from member practices.
Get clarity
Understand exactly what changes across the four phases of maternity care and which familiar codes go away.
Make a plan
Leave with concrete steps to update documentation and workflows before the January 2027 effective date.
Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:
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Describe the structural change from the bundled global obstetric package to the four-phase maternity care coding model effective January 1, 2027.
2
Apply the new antepartum, labor management, delivery, and postpartum reporting rules to common maternity care encounters in their own practice.
3
Identify the documentation and workflow adjustments needed to support accurate reporting and reduce audit risk under the new code set.
Lisa Satterfield, MS, MPH
Senior Director, Health Economics and Practice Management, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
Lisa Satterfield leads ACOG's health economics and practice management work, including health policy analysis, code development, and coding education. She represents ACOG at the AMA CPT Editorial Panel and the AMA/Specialty Society Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC), and she provides staff oversight to ACOG's Committee on Health Economics and Coding, the group that submitted the application to eliminate the global obstetric payment. Her advocacy spans physician payment and coverage for women's health across the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), commercial payers, and Congress.
Jodi A. Benett, DO, FACOOG (Dist.)
Chair, ACOOG Government Affairs Committee • Member, ACOOG Board of Trustees
Jodi Benett serves on the ACOOG Board of Trustees and chairs the ACOOG Government Affairs Committee. She leads the College's legislative and public policy advocacy and delivers regular government affairs updates to the membership on federal health policy, regulatory action, and issues affecting osteopathic physicians and patient access to care.
Accreditation and Credit Designation
CME Accreditation
The American College of Osteopathic Obstetricians and Gynecologists is accredited by the American Osteopathic Association to provide osteopathic continuing medical education for physicians.
The American College of Osteopathic Obstetricians and Gynecologists is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
CME Credit Designation
The American College of Osteopathic Obstetricians and Gynecologists designates this program for a maximum of 1 AOA Category 1-A credits and will report CME and specialty credits commensurate with the extent of the physician’s participation in this activity.
The American College of Osteopathic Obstetricians and Gynecologists designates this enduring activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.
Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
ACOG Cognate Credit(s)
The American College of Osteopathic Obstetricians and Gynecologists designates this activity for Category 1 College Cognate Credits. Maximum Cognates are equal to the number of maximum AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. A reciprocity agreement with the AMA exists that allows AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ to be equivalent to ACOG Cognate Credits.
NPs, PAs & CNMs
The American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Board (AANPCB) recognizes activities approved for Category 1-A credit through the American Osteopathic Association and Category 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ as providing advanced practice CE content hours for applicants seeking renewal through continuing education credit.
The National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA) recognizes activities approved for Category 1-A credit through the American Osteopathic Association and AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ as Regular Category 1 CME for national certification maintenance.
The Certificate Maintenance Program of the American Midwifery Certification Board accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ to satisfy its contact hours requirement.
All NPs, PAs, CNMs and other health professionals participating in this activity will receive a certificate of completion commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. ACOOG strongly recommends all non-physician health professionals check with their certification/licensing organizations to confirm credit reciprocity.
This is a live webinar. Those who register will be able to submit question to the faculty member. In this format, you will not be able to interact with other participants during the session.
An internet connected device (computer or mobile device) with high speed access is required. The platform is Zoom. You'll need to install the Zoom Client, available here. To test your system for Zoom, click here. It is designed to work on most popular web browsers. JavaScript and cookies should be enabled in your browser in order for the activity to properly work. If you're experiencing technical issues, please update your browser, and clear your browsing history, cookies, and cache. This often solves most common technical issues.
Requirements for Successful Completion
To successfully complete this activity, participants must:
- Register for and participate in the webinar
- Complete the activity evaluation
- Claim credit
A certificate will be available in the ACOOG learning center (under transcripts) when the session is over AND you complete the evaluation.
Commercial support: This activity is not commercially supported.
ACOOG requires each planner and author to identify all financial relationships with ineligible companies and mitigates risk of bias using a series of strategies for relevant relationships. Unless otherwise noted below, ACOOG, ACOOG staff, and planners for this activity have no relevant financial relationships to disclose.
Lisa Satterfield, MS, MPH, has no relevant financial relationship with an ineligible company to disclose.
Jodi A. Benett, DO, FACOOG (Dist.), has no relevant financial relationship with an ineligible company to disclose.
Grievances: Any registrant finding evidence that the continuing medical education activity presented is inappropriate with regard to facilities, materials, content, or who observes any unacceptable promotion by a commercial interest may submit a grievance in writing to ACOOG, PO Box 17598, Fort Worth, TX 76102. Unresolved issues regarding this activity will require a formal written complaint to the AOA Division of CME, 142 East Ontario Street, Chicago, IL 60611.
Privacy policy: This activity complies with ACOOG's privacy policies.
Data use: Data collected as part of this activity may be analyzed as part of educational research to study the effectiveness of educational interventions on health care, population health, health care providers and others, or to identify additional needs and gaps for future interventions.
Refunds: Refunds are not available for this educational product.
This activity is offered by ACOOG for educational purposes only. Every patient case is different, and physicians must rely on their medical knowledge, experience, and relationships with patients to make clinical decisions.