While a nurse was sewing together a huge hole in my arm, she went over the new codes required by Obamacare. One was “injured by alien encounter.” I can’t remember them all but it appears there are some 17,000 codes. A doctor can be seriously punished for using the wrong code.
One thing I discovered in QA is that if there are too many failure codes, the tech will find just one general one and use it for everything. If the doctor does that he could be in serious trouble. The codes are ridiculous.
Reminds me of my Air Force days. We had cards to account for how spent our time, and many codes for filling in the cards. We were on mid-shift, and would come in to find that day shift filled in “troubleshot system” in all of their spaces. It accounted for their time, but failed to explain how they worked on aircraft that were out flying over the Gulf.
In an era when computers recognize speech there is no need for codes.