Why it’s obvious, of course. The government wants to distinguish between those individuals who may have happened to be bitten ONCE by a squirrel, and those too stupid to stop doing whatever they were doing to get bitten MORE than once.
The reason they are doing this is because they want to identify future potential government employees from the ‘more than once’ category.
FR needs such a classification system, not the simple ‘Report Abuse’ link we have now.
Code 1001. The post is hugh.
Code 1002. The post is series.
Code 1003. ... etc etc.
LOL.
My sister...well, you know...
Glad to see our tax money is hard at work. /facepalm
...and you can be sure, somehow, someway, your voting preferences will be noted....don’t put anything past these bass turds
Employment opportunities for coding specialists, income for firms who train coding specialists. It could be a good job for an obsessive categorizer such as myself ...
I’ve seen the new coding that came with the new DSM 5. It broke my brain!
Seriously. It’s a colossal.......
Yeah, and y’know what else parses ailments to the finest detail? Written English. Had to train on the ridiculous piles of new codes, and the only “e.g.” used — repeatedly — by the Affirmative Action success story presenter was, the old codes didn’t differentiate between left and right sides of the body.
Further proof that Obamacare is DESIGNED to DESTROY the insurance and healthcare industry.
LOL. And all these confusing codes were probably developed by government drones that need assistance in applying a band-aid.
This is going to a classic of GIGO
Garbage In Garbage Out.
No MD is going to waste his time wading through the coding to that extent.
They want to push up the fraud numbers.
The doctor has to “code” the visit at the end. The time necessary to do this right has grown from 10 seconds in 2001 to about two minutes now - and it’s going to get a lot longer.
The obvious solution is less care for the patient, or less care in coding.
Once the coding dataset turns to sh*t, the NYT will have a front page story about escalating fraud and the need for more government control.
It’s all so predictable.
My sister was bit by a Moose....does that count for disability....?
Ping!
Don’t worry, a “fixer” will be around to help your doctor navigate the system...for a modest consideration, of course.
Complicating things and generating ( electronic) paperwork. What the feral government does best.
The only way to defeat this is to go to the doctor FOR EVERYTHING.