DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2018 Issue 10 (October)

Ordering tests can up the level of medical decision-making, even pending results

Question: A nurse practitioner told a patient to return after an office visit if his chest pain worsened, and the provider ordered a nuclear stress test to take place the next day. Can my provider count the plan for the stress test in the medical decision-making for the previous encounter, even if the diagnosis isn’t made until eight days after the face-to-face encounter?

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