time based documentation
As long as you can answer the following 3 questions yes, then you can billed based on time:
1 Does documentation reveal total time?
2. Does documentation describe the content of counseling or coordination of care?
3. Does documentation reveal hat more than 50% of the time was counseling or coordinating care?
Documentation may refer to: prognosis, defferntial diagnois, risks, benefits of treatment, instructions, compliance, risk reduction, etc.
When you use time as the driving factor it doesn't matter what is in the HPI, Exam and MDM.
Hope this helps.