Risk

Below is a fairly standard table of risk.  Other tables may include more information.  In order to find your level of risk, simply go up the chart, starting from the bottom (highest level).  When you find something that you have done on this visit, stop.  You only need one item in any one column above to qualify for that level of risk.

Notice that writing a prescription medication qualifies for level 4 risk. Also, if you are addressing two or more chronic problems, this by itself would qualify for level 4 risk.  And if you remember from previously, if you have one new problem or two problems where one of them is worsening, this qualifies for moderate complexity (level 4) decision making.

 

 

(source:  http://www.the-hospitalist.org/details/article/1453381/Medical_Decision-Making_Factors_Include_Quantity_of_Information_Complexity.html)