afryberger
Networker
Hello Fellow Coders- I have a question for you because this is a discussion between coders. Under the decision making section of the E&M it gets broke down into three parts-Diagnosis, Data, and Risk. I was always told you need to have two out of the three to get your decision making and you move down the scale until you get your highest two. So for example if they have Low under diagnosis, moderate under data and high under risk. You would get a moderate for the overall MDM. You would choose your highest two. Another coder believes on a weight system, which i never heard of, that risk is higher than data on the weight system, that this would be a high under the MDM. I have never heard of that. If anyone has anything about a weight system or about risk being weighted more than Data, that would be great because the only thing I see is in the guidelines. Thanks in advance.