“MAPS” ... huh? I had heard that ICD-10 was expanded dramatically ... :-) ...
Yeah, in October they went from around 17,000 diagnostic codes to over 155,000. They forgot that one. So my girlfriend and I have prepared that one for the inevitable addenda when they add more. We have another one they forgot as well. . . this one explains EVERYTHING about Liberals.
321.0 SPLAT Liberal Cerebral Defenestration (LCD) or Liberal Acquired Brain Absence (LABA), Complete loss of rationality, cognition, and cerebration due to indiscriminately keeping one's mind so far open that the brain falls out. First and subsequent encounters.
As you walk around the hallowed halls of Congress. . . especially in the Democrat and Republican Leadership Caucuses, if you listen carefully, you can hear the sounds of the sufferers. . . splat. . . splat, splat. . . splat. . . the soft sound of brains hitting the floor. SPLAT! Oh, that one was close!
Here is a re-post of an article that was posted on FreeRepublic on the upcoming event:
Code Chaos Another nightmare for doctors, courtesy of the federal governmentThe Weekly Standard ^ | 3/7/14 | STEPHEN F. HAYES
Posted on March 7, 2014 at 8:39:15 PM PST
Ever considered suicide by jellyfish? Have you ended up in the hospital after being injured during the forced landing of your spacecraft? Or been hurt when you were sucked into the engine of an airplane or when your horse-drawn carriage collided with a trolley?
Chances are slim.
But should any of these unfortunate injuries befall you after October 1, 2014, your doctor, courtesy of the federal government, will have a code to record it. On that date, the United States is scheduled to implement a new system for recording injuries, medical diagnoses, and inpatient procedures called ICD-10—the 10th version of the International Classification of Diseases propagated by the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. So these exotic injuries, codeless for so many years, will henceforth be known, respectively, as
- T63622A (Toxic effect of contact with other jellyfish, intentional self-harm, initial encounter),
- V9542XA (Forced landing of spacecraft injuring occupant, initial encounter),
- V9733XA (Sucked into jet engine, initial encounter), and
- V80731A (Occupant of animal-drawn vehicle injured in collision with streetcar, initial encounter).
The coming changes are vast. The number of codes will explode—from 17,000 under the current system to 155,000 under the new one, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
The transition to ICD-10 was planned long before Congress passed the Affordable Care Act in 2010. But Obama administration officials say it is a critical part of the coming reforms. “ICD-10 is the foundation for health care reform,” said Jeff Hinson, a CMS regional administrator, in a conference call about ICD-10 for providers in Colorado
. . .
Boynton’s “personal favorite” is code V9027XA: “Drowning and submersion due to falling or jumping from burning water-skis, initial encounter.”
_______________________________
Members of FreeRepublic, waxing creative, decided to add to the ICD-10 some of their own codes:
- 112008UPY0URS: Perforated intestine incurred while playing leapfrog with a unicorn.
- AARGH1000: Severe blood loss from repeated paper cuts suffered while handling copies of the Affordable Care Act.
- CC666Bsgwejrjk: Compound carpal injury from typing stupid unnecessary regulations.
17T$D3BT: Aggravated snorting of red ink by a Treasury Dept. official.
- 0ICU812: Choking injury for sword-swallowers and other friends of Barney Frank.
- R0TFLMA0: Accidental spillage of a scalding beverage onto one’s genitalia after reading this article.