Nonnke

Thank you for confirming the triage and billing process.

I do think there are motivations for doing this to include wanting to appear to be taking care of sicker patients based on their orders.

The physicians at my place are also changing Triage hours after diagnostic tests such as labs and imaging are done. My thought is that an initial triage should remain the same throughout the visit and not changed after more information is gathered. Triage should be based on resources needed and initial presentation of life threatening acuity not test results. An example is changing a ESI 3 to a ESI 2 after discovering an out of range potassium or lactate values 2 hours is not correct. Please tell me if I am correct.