Vaginal Delivery (Global) Cost in Alabama
Obstetrical care
$1,983.37Alabama physician fee2026 Medicare office rate- ✓Your ZIP's wage-adjusted hospital and surgery centre rates
- ✓Five nearby hospitals by name, with CMS star ratings
- ✓The add-on codes that typically land on the bill
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Alabama Medicare physician rate (2026)
-10.4% vs nationalSingle statewide locality.
Your ZIP in Alabama
Enter a ZIP code to see figures for your part of Alabama, whether that is Birmingham, Huntsville, Mobile, Montgomery, or a rural county in the Black Belt or the Appalachian north.
What vaginal delivery (global) costs at hospitals near you
Everything above is a national average. The hospital you pick in Alabama moves the bill more than anything else you control.
Rates for your ZIP, 5 named hospitals with CMS ratings, the add-on codes, and the scheduler script.
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What these numbers are
Every figure on this page is a 2026 Medicare allowed amount: the physician line comes from the Physician Fee Schedule adjusted by geographic practice-cost indices, and the facility totals come from the CMS hospital outpatient (OPPS) and ambulatory surgery centre rates. None of them is a hospital chargemaster price, your insurer's contracted rate, or a quote. Anesthesia, pathology, imaging reads and follow-up care are billed under their own codes when they apply, and an inpatient stay is paid a different way again.
National vs Alabama
Where Alabama ranks for this CPT
Vaginal Delivery (Global) and how Alabama is priced
Medicare treats Alabama as one statewide payment locality, so the same geographic adjustment factors apply to a physician visit in Birmingham as in a small Wiregrass town. That single-locality setup keeps the published fee schedule uniform across the state, even though the cost of running a practice differs between the larger metros and rural counties. Alabama's geographic indices sit below the national average, which places its Medicare-approved amounts among the lower tiers nationally. What varies for patients is less the fee schedule itself and more the setting where care is delivered, since hospital outpatient billing can add facility fees on top of the physician rate.
Birmingham anchors the state's medical economy with a major academic medical center and a concentration of specialists, while Huntsville, Mobile, and Montgomery support sizable regional systems. Much of rural Alabama, particularly the Black Belt counties, faces thin physician coverage, so patients there often travel to a metro for specialty care. That travel pattern means the price you compare should be for where you will actually be treated, not just where you live.
This procedure: This code is not a single procedure but the entire package of routine pregnancy care with a vaginal birth: all standard prenatal visits, the delivery itself including any needed episiotomy or forceps assistance, and postpartum checkups. Labor and delivery happen in a hospital or birth center, and the global code represents roughly ten months of care by the obstetrician or midwifery practice. The hospital stay for an uncomplicated vaginal birth is typically one to two nights.
What Is Vaginal Delivery (Global)?
This code is not a single procedure but the entire package of routine pregnancy care with a vaginal birth: all standard prenatal visits, the delivery itself including any needed episiotomy or forceps assistance, and postpartum checkups. Labor and delivery happen in a hospital or birth center, and the global code represents roughly ten months of care by the obstetrician or midwifery practice. The hospital stay for an uncomplicated vaginal birth is typically one to two nights.
What Affects the Cost
- –The hospital's facility charges for labor, delivery, and the postpartum stay are separate from and usually larger than the physician's global fee.
- –An epidural is billed by the anesthesiologist as an entirely separate charge.
- –Your newborn generates a second, separate hospital account from the moment of birth, including nursery or NICU care and pediatrician visits.
- –Ultrasounds, lab panels, and genetic screening during pregnancy are billed outside the global fee, visit by visit.
- –Extra visits for complications like gestational diabetes or hypertension fall outside routine prenatal care and are billed additionally.
- –If labor ends in an unplanned cesarean, the physician claim converts to the cesarean global code at a higher rate and the hospital stay lengthens.
Questions to Ask Before Booking
- 1.What does your global fee include, and which common services, like ultrasounds and labs, will be billed separately?
- 2.What are the hospital's typical facility charges for a vaginal delivery and postpartum stay?
- 3.Is the anesthesiology group that places epidurals at your hospital in my network?
- 4.How is the baby's hospital care billed, and what do I need to do to enroll the baby on my insurance?
- 5.If I end up needing a cesarean, how do the physician and hospital charges change?
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Vaginal Delivery (Global) in Alabama: questions
Alabama is a single Medicare locality for this fee schedule. The 2026 physician rate for CPT 59400 is $1,983.37 in an office and $1,983.37 in a hospital, statewide. A ZIP lookup still confirms the locality mapping.
Not on the physician fee schedule. Alabama uses one locality, so the Medicare physician rate is the same from one end of the state to the other. What still changes is site of service (office vs hospital) and any facility fee the hospital bills on its own claim.
After the Part B deductible, coinsurance is usually 20% of the allowed amount: about $397 for the office physician line or $397 for the hospital physician line in Alabama. Medigap may cover that 20%. This is not the hospital facility fee.
No. $1,983.37 is the Medicare physician allowed amount for CPT 59400. Anesthesia, facility fees, implants, and other CPT codes billed the same day are extra. Alabama ranks #8 of 51 states on this physician line (10% below the national office rate of $2,214.48).