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Wiki Counting Data for inpatient charts using 2023 Guidelines

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If you have a patient that has been admitted by a hospitalist, on day 1 you would count any testing or interpretations that are performed. Lets say on day 3 patient is seen by different hospitalist (first face to face visit for this hospitalist) and this one pulls all the testing and interpretations that were performed on that day 1 over to his/her note. Would you count them again since this Hospitalist has not seen the patient before? I am thinking no, you should only count them on the day that they are ordered or interpreted. I would not count any testing/interpretations that had been previously performed or documented from the first hospitalist documentation. My rationale is same specialty so you would only count it once. Thoughts?
 
Hi there, if the hospitalist is also from the same group then you are correct, you can't count it a second time.
 
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