My doctor just went under. He said he was retiring because he was tired or getting screwed by Obamacare and all the electronic forms now required. My sister, also a doctor, says they are about to come out with a new coding protocol that is magnitudes greater and unworkable than the present one, which is also basicaaly a mess. And the old code numbers do not even track over into the new more complicated system, so literally you will have the inputters having to relearn the whole thing from scratch.
new coding protocol..”
Actually it’s called ICD-10. They are diagnosis codes. Implementation has been postponed at least twice that I know of, primarily because Medicare (the agency driving this change) wasn’t ready. My docs and I are just hoping it is postponed again.
Lots of groups making money off of this by offering classes to docs and coders to assist in the learning process. It’s going to be a disaster.