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I really need clarification on the problems addressed in MDM when the patient is being seen for their chronic pain management. When counting the # of chronic conditions addressed should we be counting it as 1 chronic condition which is the "pain being treated" in whole or should we account for each underlying condition and/or site of pain.
for example The patient has chronic low back pain from Lum Spondylosis and Bilateral knee pain from osteoarthritis that is stable on current treatment plan. Is this counted as 2 stable chronic conditions (spondylosis and osteoarthritis) or 1 stable chronic condition( chronic pain)?
seeing how we are specifically managing the Chronic pain I feel like chronic condition would be the chronic pain and would all be counted as 1 condition no matter how many sites of pain. Am I thinking about this correctly??
thanks
I really need clarification on the problems addressed in MDM when the patient is being seen for their chronic pain management. When counting the # of chronic conditions addressed should we be counting it as 1 chronic condition which is the "pain being treated" in whole or should we account for each underlying condition and/or site of pain.
for example The patient has chronic low back pain from Lum Spondylosis and Bilateral knee pain from osteoarthritis that is stable on current treatment plan. Is this counted as 2 stable chronic conditions (spondylosis and osteoarthritis) or 1 stable chronic condition( chronic pain)?
seeing how we are specifically managing the Chronic pain I feel like chronic condition would be the chronic pain and would all be counted as 1 condition no matter how many sites of pain. Am I thinking about this correctly??
thanks