Guest guest Posted August 30, 2008 Report Share Posted August 30, 2008 Just a quick question regarding BMI and coding. One of the coders at my institution recently called and said the dietitians needed to document BMI on all patients. Some the pts are not seen by the rds based on screening, los, etc. I asked her if a BMI chart would help and she replied-no , it has to be documented by a dietitian . I cannot find a regulation, nor do we have a policy indicating this. Before I contact the administrators I would like to look up regulations on this , etc and see what other food and nutrition depts do. We have no problem doing BMI when we see pts but to send someone down to medical records after the pts have been dc'd to do a BMI on someone not even seen by a RD is ridiculous. Thank you in advance. Kim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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