Wiki Echo before new patient visit

[Lisa Bledsoe]

PCP's often order an echo on their patients prior to them being seen by our cardiologists. If our cardiologist is the one who read the echo, does that negate the new patient status? I don't think so because no face-to-face encounter occurred. What if it is a stress echo though?

 

[theresa.dix@tennova.com]

PCP's often order an echo on their patients prior to them being seen by our cardiologists. If our cardiologist is the one who read the echo, does that negate the new patient status? I don't think so because no face-to-face encounter occurred. What if it is a stress echo though?

You are correct. No face to face encounter occured.

 

[Lisa Bledsoe]

What about the stress echo? Either the MD or NPP would have supervised the stress component...would that be considered "face-to-face"?