Vaginal Delivery (Global) Cost in Indiana
Obstetrical care
$1,987.79Indiana 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
- ✓A word-for-word script for asking for a good-faith estimate
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- ✓Everything in the Premium report
- ✓15 nearby hospitals instead of five
- ✓Filled good-faith-estimate request letter
- ✓Bill-negotiation letter
- ✓Printable PDF download
Indiana Medicare physician rate (2026)
-10.2% vs nationalSingle statewide locality.
Your ZIP in Indiana
Look up your ZIP for Indiana figures, whether in Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, Evansville, South Bend, the Region near Chicago, or the rural counties along the Ohio River.
What vaginal delivery (global) costs at hospitals near you
Everything above is a national average. The hospital you pick in Indiana 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 Indiana
Where Indiana ranks for this CPT
Vaginal Delivery (Global) and how Indiana is priced
Indiana's Medicare physician rates come from a single statewide locality with indices a bit under the national average, placing it in the moderate band of Midwest pricing. Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, Evansville, and the smallest rural counties all share identical geographic adjustments. Northwest Indiana sits inside the Chicago metropolitan area but is still priced under Indiana's statewide locality rather than Chicago's, which creates a visible pricing seam at the state line. For most Hoosiers the statewide fee schedule is a dependable guide to Medicare-approved amounts.
Indianapolis dominates the state's health care landscape, hosting its academic medical center and the headquarters of its largest systems, while regional hubs in Fort Wayne, Evansville, and South Bend cover their surrounding counties. Indiana's hospital prices for commercially insured patients have drawn national attention for running high relative to the region, which makes Medicare benchmarks a valuable reference for anyone paying cash. Rural southern Indiana often looks to Louisville or Cincinnati across the river.
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 Indiana: questions
Indiana is a single Medicare locality for this fee schedule. The 2026 physician rate for CPT 59400 is $1,987.79 in an office and $1,987.79 in a hospital, statewide. A ZIP lookup still confirms the locality mapping.
Not on the physician fee schedule. Indiana 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 $398 for the office physician line or $398 for the hospital physician line in Indiana. Medigap may cover that 20%. This is not the hospital facility fee.
No. $1,987.79 is the Medicare physician allowed amount for CPT 59400. Anesthesia, facility fees, implants, and other CPT codes billed the same day are extra. Indiana ranks #10 of 51 states on this physician line (10% below the national office rate of $2,214.48).