People will do what they always do when asked to do the impossible, they will do what they can do and fudge the rest.
By making it more difficult to determine the correct ICD code for a situation I can foresee more and more claims being denied for “incorrect classification”.
Most ‘regular’ folks don’t know about these codes until their insurance doesn’t pay something due to a wrong code number and they get the bill. New docs get a rude awakening when they actually go into practice and have to deal with this .... lots of documentation required to bill certain numbers and it definitely impacts what you can bill/bottom line. IDC-9 already was taking hunks out of doc/patient time ... the new codes are just ridiculous, but then so is most of what the government regulates/mandates.
I don’t think you are seeing a doctor after being sucked into a jet engine... Is that the mortician’s code?
You wont hear this on the view, funny! These shows are out there for a purpose, to deaden the senses, to sit there in front of the TV like a mental patient in a straight jacket drooling on yourself is the goal. ABC’s world news with diane sawyer is the same, they wont tell you the news because they have been instructed not to. Lull them to sleep, feed them non information, repetitious garbage over and over so they cant see the changes being made that will effect them and thier children moving forward until it is to late
What a nightmare, I have dealt with insurance numerous times due to improper coding.
So long as weird accidents show up in emergency rooms, there will be a proliferation of codes.
I can guess the code “forehead laceration by Tuba” might be one of the 68,000 codes and that my son’s mishap with his friend’s tuba bell is responsible.
The bell was on the ground. My son stumbled and fell, cutting his forehead on the exposed meeting edge. It bled a lot but was not really serious.
What about getting sucked in to a jet engine after walking in to two lamp posts because you were blinded by a burning water ski on your way to the opera?
The first lamppost is covered: The second is not. It is clear on page 12,422 of your policy guidebook. Look it up.
This is my business, and there’s debate in my department — delay it a year or not?
68,000???
Just going to have pull few all nighters and study harder......
If a code is entered incorrectly and it gets into the government database, you will never be able to correct it. No one will have the authority or the skill (other than hackers) to change it. My prediction based on past dealings with bureaucracies, and the fact that this will be the biggest and most active database anyone has ever tried to manage.
I’d be willing to bet that of those 68,000 codes hospitals will still use only 100 or so regularly.
It’s important that we know how many people are bitten by a shark A SECOND TIME.
W56.41xA Bitten by shark, initial encounter ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code
W56.41xD Bitten by shark, subsequent encounter ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code
If only we could tie the codes to voter enrollment. Anyone with W56.41xD is ineligible to vote.
I had a young doc at a fairly new clinic for a while. He had a tablet and the clinic had top of the line software. Total eye contact about 15 seconds. Total time doc trying to navigate the tablet 10 minutes. Total investigative time 0. The tablet is suppose to magically diagnose and offer a treatment plan. All I needed were some Antibiotics a simple tongue depressor and flashlight could have shown. I don’t go there anymore. After Obamacare, Who knows how bad it gets? Unless you have cash, if it will be legal, medical care in this country is dead.
What’s the code for man-child president with big-a#s wookie wife?
I see considerable value in the future in having a “Physician-Patient Liberty Act” passed by congress.
It would say that if a doctor and a patient were willing to stay out of Medicare, Medicaid, and Insurance, they would not have to comply with things like HIPAA, and most other reporting beyond taxes and communicable diseases, they could do so without penalty.
“...being burned due to water skis on fire (V91.07XD)”
That must have been one helluva show!