We have a provider who’s nurse does the HPI and we were told that this is an acceptable practice, to just disregard the HPI (don’t count the History of present illness) when coding the E&M level and assigning level of care. I was taught that the HPI was to be done by the provider, and as a CPC should we not ask the provider to do the HPI, so we are following guidelines?

Feed back on this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!