New Medical Codes Parse Ailments To The Finest Detail

“Further proof that Obamacare is DESIGNED to DESTROY the insurance and healthcare industry.”

I am a professional hospital medical coder. As much as I ABSOLUTELY HATE OCare: The new coding set (ICD-10) has been in the works long before OCare. Actually its implementation has been postponed twice already. A version of ICD-10 has been in use worldwide, except in the US, for quite a while. It was postponed due to the enormous expense to hospitals, doctor’s offices, insurance companies, and the US gov’t (medicare). The main problem now is that setting the start date of 10/1/14 on top of a mandated electronic record and the OCare milehigh stack of regulations,it will financially ruin many healthcare providers. The change from ICD-9-CM to ICD-10 is like changing from English to Russian. The codes, code fields, and root word definitions are changing. At my hospital, we are already spending hours and hours taking on-line courses to learn the new system. It is costing the hospital a lot of money; the IT (info technology) dept is also greatly impacted by this code set change.

So although OCare didn’t dream this up; I agree with poster G Larry. it will help bankrupt and destroy our healthcare system.

Of course the US version, has many more codes than the international version. Just gotta love those statistics. /sarc

It is costing the hospital a lot of money; the IT (info technology) dept is also greatly impacted by this code set change.

A friend is an optometrist, thirty years in practice using paper records.

He was complaining the other day that Obamacare's electronic medical records (and other) requirements are going to bankrupt his practice.

He's an outspoken liberal; I resisted the urge to point out that he voted for Obama. The look on his face was priceless.

“He was complaining the other day that Obamacare’s electronic medical records (and other) requirements are going to bankrupt his practice.”

One of our hospital's best doctors, had a private practice (she wasn't part of the hospital associated physician group)
sent out letters in the beginning of December. She was quitting being a doctor as of Dec 31, 2013. She specifically cited the new regulations and cost of practicing as her reason. I was personally upset; she was my doctor.
I think this is going to be a common occurrance

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