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title: "Clinician Office Visit with Nephrology Provider"
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# Clinician Office Visit with Nephrology Provider

## **Definition**

A clinician office visit with a nephrologist or other clinician providing nephrology-related care, identified by the presence of a nephrologist attending and/or service provider, or by the presence of a nephrology group provider as the billing provider or provider group on the encounter.

## **Purpose**

Used in the URSA-CKD module to identify whether CKD patients are being appropriately managed by a nephrologist and to attribute CKD patients to nephrology providers.

## **Related objects**

- [**Clinician Office Visits**](https://docs.ursahealth.com/docs/core-objects-clinician-office-visits)
- [**Nephrologists and Nephrology Group Providers**](/v1/docs/ckd-objects-nephrologists-and-nephrology-group-providers)
- [**Clinician Office Visits with Nephrology Provider**](/v1/docs/ckd-objects-clinician-office-visit-with-nephrology-provider)
- [**Patient Timelines of Empirical Attribution to Nephrology Provider**](/v1/docs/ckd-objects-patient-timelines-master-for-ursa-ckd-concepts)

## **Detailed narrative of logic**

1. As implemented in **Clinician Office Visits with Nephrology Provider**, encounters meeting the URSA-CORE definition of a clinician office visit are obtained from **Clinician Office Visits** and included if the service provider, attending provider, or provider group on the encounter meets the definition of a nephrologist or nephrology group provider, as implemented in **Nephrologists and Nephrology Group Providers**.
2. Note that it is possible for qualifying encounters to have a non-nephrologist (or unknown) service provider and attending provider if the provider group associated with the encounter is a nephrology provider organization. Qualifying visits could therefore include those in which the patient was seen by, for example, a nurse practitioner. The use of the term “nephrology provider” in the name of this object is meant to reflect that range of scenarios.