June 14, 2021

We have a patient that had an orthopedic consult and an orthopedic spine consult, the same orthopedic advanced practitioner saw the patient in the emergency department and did two separate consults for two separate physicians. Would we list them both as orthopedic consults or list the orthopedic consult and “other: specifying orthopedic spine?

PTSF recommends you capture both separately. That means spine would need to be recorded under the “other” option. Note that only Speech Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, and Physiatry consults are required to be recorded for non-burn patients at a burn center and all patients at non-burn centers.

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