dballard2004
True Blue
A patient presents to the office with wrist pain. The final diagnosis from the provider is wrist pain.
In the plan of care, no treatment was really given. The provider discussed the nature of the condtion with the patient and discussed the need to change work practices, get a split keyboard, learn to type correctly, etc.
My question is under the MDM, what level of risk would you assign to this scenario? If all the provider does is talk about the patient changing his/her work practice, where does this fall under the risk since no treatment is being given?
Also, would you score 3 points as a new problem w/o addional w/u, or since this is wrist pain and we are doing nothing more than discussing the need to change work practices, could this possibly be considered a self-limited or minor problem?
I should mention here that this is a new patient. Thanks.
In the plan of care, no treatment was really given. The provider discussed the nature of the condtion with the patient and discussed the need to change work practices, get a split keyboard, learn to type correctly, etc.
My question is under the MDM, what level of risk would you assign to this scenario? If all the provider does is talk about the patient changing his/her work practice, where does this fall under the risk since no treatment is being given?
Also, would you score 3 points as a new problem w/o addional w/u, or since this is wrist pain and we are doing nothing more than discussing the need to change work practices, could this possibly be considered a self-limited or minor problem?
I should mention here that this is a new patient. Thanks.