The next step is for the government idiots to require you bring in a video of what happened to you...as well as a notarized statement that it is true.
IIRC, Kaiser Permanente already limits doctor visits to something like 10-20 minutes. It can't get much shorter than that.
These outrageous regulations were one of the reasons that government officials didn’t want to participate in ObamaCare. Can you imagine having a medical emergency some weekend and the weekend fill-in medical person in the ER is sitting there thumbing through the 155,000 codes online trying to find which one they should enter? That “golden hour” for care will be long gone....and so will the patient.
I would guess this will further raise the cost of healthcare. Obummer; the mental midge with anti-Midas touch. Everything he touchesvturns to $h@t
How about a ‘tell me something I don’t know’ ping?
It sounds funny, but is deadly serious. The wrong code can cost thousands of dollars in reimbursement and literally end the doc in court, jail or heavily fined. Not only is it totally ridiculous, but wastes time that could be spent caring for patients, costs untold millions in labor expenses, and is a giant game of russian roulette. Get the government out of my face.
There is NEVER enough data for the data miners and ‘Datavores’.
That isn't true. However, it could very well be more expenses to the physician's office/billing in order to comply with it. For example, right now a small office may have one or two people that handle their billing. With this, they'll probably have to hire another employee or two to keep up with the additional workload.(that's job creation - I suppose LOL) The ICD-9s are bad enough! If there are ANY errors with Coding Medicare/Medicaid will NOT pay, and they won't tell them why. They'll just reject it(sometimes months later), so it's very important to get it right the first time.
This is yet another expensive burden on the physician's practice that will go uncompensated. They will have to EAT these costs, as I'm sure the already terrible reimbursement rates will not be increasing accordingly. (they already lose money on Medicare/Medicaid)
“make it hurt”
Physician friends already tell me that Obamacare has increased their workload/decreased their productivity by 30%.
Young black female doc I saw recently told me she wished she had never decided to go to med school with all her loans to repay and not being able to really practice medicine anymore........
The purpose is creating a hammer. "Yes, we can make your life miserable and your practice unprofitable if you don't do as you're told".
This is not a new rule. It has been in the works since the 1990’s. How much of a waste of time it will be is still a question. Most doctors have coding people either at their offices or they contract with them so the burden will be on the coders to learn the new codes. Of course it will require clarification and back and forth so that will waste time.