MichelleAKing
Contributor
Dear Fellow Memebers, please see the HPI at the bottom...
I audited this physician's visit and I could only find three elements to give him in his HPI, Location, Quality and Associated Signs and Symptoms. The physician is arguing with me that his statement that "she has been asymptomatic" should be counted as "severity". I disagree with him and would like some feedback as to what some others think. I counted it as associated signs and sympptoms because he is basically saying that she has no symptoms. He views it differently and sees it as since there are no symptoms that is not severe. I tried to explain to him that severity is a descriptive statement describing the severity of the symptoms. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance!
"The patient is a 66-year-old woman who presents for further evaluation of an abdominal aortic aneurysm. She has been asymptomatic from this. She denies any tearing back pain. She denies any distal emboli. She has no symptoms of claudication. She has had no angina and no CVAs. She is otherwise at her baseline state of health. There is no family history of aneurysms."
I audited this physician's visit and I could only find three elements to give him in his HPI, Location, Quality and Associated Signs and Symptoms. The physician is arguing with me that his statement that "she has been asymptomatic" should be counted as "severity". I disagree with him and would like some feedback as to what some others think. I counted it as associated signs and sympptoms because he is basically saying that she has no symptoms. He views it differently and sees it as since there are no symptoms that is not severe. I tried to explain to him that severity is a descriptive statement describing the severity of the symptoms. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance!
"The patient is a 66-year-old woman who presents for further evaluation of an abdominal aortic aneurysm. She has been asymptomatic from this. She denies any tearing back pain. She denies any distal emboli. She has no symptoms of claudication. She has had no angina and no CVAs. She is otherwise at her baseline state of health. There is no family history of aneurysms."