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  • The October Surprise that Could Cripple the Practice of Medicine

    03/28/2014 5:03:31 AM PDT · by afraidfortherepublic · 50 replies
    The American Thinker ^ | 3-28-14 | Brian Joondepth
    You won’t read about the International Classification of Disease (ICD) on TMZ or hear it discussed on The View, but it has the potential to be an unpleasant October surprise in the health care world. It is a list of codes that physicians and hospitals use when billing insurance companies. These codes cover all manner of medical diagnoses for diseases, conditions, and injuries. The first version of the ICD appeared in 1946, with periodic revisions since. Six months from now, on October 1, the latest version, the ICD-10, will be implemented in the U.S. We are late to the party,...