Currently, if a woman suffers a miscarriage and requires medical treatment, the hospital will bill insurance with the code “Abortion:Spontaneous”
After going through 7 miscarriages and requiring medically treatment for many of them, it’s time to end the conversation for abortion around miscarriages. The reason they are included are due to the way that lobbyists have convinced miscarriage to be included under abortion for coding purposes. It has allowed medical care to be feared and propagated as something more. By creating an insurance code that better aligns with the medical treatment of a miscarriage- by coding it as such, women then become free of political action, debate and fighting during one of the most painful times in their lives.
I will be advocating for this from every corner I can. I reached my tolerance for this simple change to impact millions of women and to stop hurting women.
The difference between a miscarriage and abortion is medically necesary surgery for a failing or non viable fetus vs. Elective abortion. Why are these billed the same and coded the same? The tracking should be different as well!! This change would help protect female reproductive care for miscarriages while there is currently an extremely high rate of occurance.
It’s awful. You can pull up all sorts of data on the number of abortions, because it’s all tracked through medical billing. But you can’t get a number for miscarriages because the coding doesn’t get pulled for data collection. It’s not coded as a miscarriage.
It’s a gut wrenching bill to get when you’re someone who suffers the loss. It hurts even more when it becomes political and people are arguing over it without actually addressing the real issue.