Barbara Burgess
Guest
For those of you that audit pediatric providers, do you or do you not give the 2 point credit under Medical Decision Making (amount and/or complexity of data to be reviewed) for "obtaining history from someone other than the patient" when the patient is not old enough to provide an adequate history themselves ?? In a lot of cases, it's given that the patient is not the one providing and of the HPI, ROS or PFSH (non-verbal infant, etc) or patient is very young and can only provide limited info ("my tummy hurts"). If you do give credit, do you do it in all cases, or only in some ?? Or credit only if the provider specifically documents that a parent or caregiver was the source of info ?
Having been a peds nurse in my past life, I tend to want to always give this credit to the provider when the patient is clearly non-verbal, and for older peds patients if anything more than just a basic CC and HPI/ROS is documented. Another auditor here feels like it should only be allowed if the provider themselves personally documents that the history was provided by whoever accompanied the patient, and another auditor not at all because "of course the child can't give the history".
Would appreciate any/all other thoughts and opinions on this !!
Barbara Burgess, RN, CPC, ACS-EM, PCS
Coding Compliance Nurse Specialist
University of South Alabama
Having been a peds nurse in my past life, I tend to want to always give this credit to the provider when the patient is clearly non-verbal, and for older peds patients if anything more than just a basic CC and HPI/ROS is documented. Another auditor here feels like it should only be allowed if the provider themselves personally documents that the history was provided by whoever accompanied the patient, and another auditor not at all because "of course the child can't give the history".
Would appreciate any/all other thoughts and opinions on this !!
Barbara Burgess, RN, CPC, ACS-EM, PCS
Coding Compliance Nurse Specialist
University of South Alabama