Well, here's the senario and solution.

I was asked to provide reference for hospital privileges for a former associate. The files that I used to keep that information on were with my old payroll system that has long been forgotten. I honestly could not remember the dates.

I called her to ask what dates she had provided and she never called me back. We are on good terms, guess she somehow overlooked the message.

I would up calling the hospital and told them the situation, they gave me the dates she had provided and I used them.

Then I saw Indy's response above. What I did then was query provider seen and encounter date. I started with > 1/1/2003 and marched it up until I came up with 9/17/2003. I then marched down from < 01/01/2008 until I came to 01/17/2007. These dates are somewhat different than they gave me but are within 6 months or so. She had been a resident with me, doing COC clinic at my office, so there was no "ramp up" time. Her COC visits were co-signed so they were different.

The solution was somewhat clunky, but I did it in less than 5 minutes once I figured out how to solve the problem.


Wendell
Pediatrician in Chicago

The patient's expectation is that you have all the answers, sometimes they just don't like the answer you have for them