He’s probably hating life about now. New coding system was just implimented. Something like over 4000 codes now and none of them are the same as before. Without the EMR feeding you the codes, it would be hard to bill for any services.
“ICD-10 comes with greater specificity and more numerous codes. There are approximately 68,000 ICD-10 codes compared to 14,000 ICD-9 codes. Medical practices are going through immense pressure due to ICD-10 implementation.”
Actual codes:
Pecked by a chicken
Bitten by a turtle
Bitten by a cow
Struck by a duck
Walked into a light pole
Sucked into a jet engine
Etc.
I think he has someone locally x-scribing the paper files to codes for billing on a PC, and an outside firm doing the billing based on that. Not exactly like the “old days” of local files & billing, but that is pretty hard these days! My elderly mother lives in the “boonies” and sees a doc in a 1 doc/1 PA office with a part-time bookkeeper/billing!! An endangered species!