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Expert
Here's the scenario: Family dr sees their established patient several times for knee pain. Family dr sends patient to ortho. Ortho decides patient needs surgery. Ortho sends patient back to family dr to do the pre op HP consult. When I am auditing the pre op consult, is the dx a new problem or established? The reason for the preop is clearance for surgery, so I am not sure if I should count that as a new problem no added workup or if I should count the actualy reason for the surgery as the dx? Make sense?