For an outpatient encounter, when a patient presents for evaulation of a condition that he/she had on the last visit, but now on the current visit that day, the MD (or a report dictated by a pathologist or radiologist) states that the condition has now resolved, what is the best way to code? Do I code what they had when they walked through the door (code current condition) or what was determined by the end of the visit (I assume I'll be using follow-up and history codes in that case. I would think this would be a very common situation and can find nothing clearly written about this concept. I know outpatient guidelines state "reason for encounter" but also state "do not code conditions resolved" as current.