Sorry to take up your time. I am trying to understand this. Especially your last two sentences.
Is there a white paper on this? An instruction sheet of some sort? Am I the only one who didn't know this was available?
So, if I wrote:
Patient presents with fever, cough, runny nose and rash, that may be considered one or none? But, if I wrote: (and I think in the E & M Coder Helper it used ( > )
Patient presents with:
> Fever times three days
> Cough
> Runny nose times two days
> Rash starting today
the program would count that as four? Bear in mind, when looking at E & M, it counts Fever to 102.3 for three days as three things due to the descripters (unless I am wrong about that).
Also, if it gives a 99214, where would it show that and how accurate is it?
