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If a physician or hospital wants to be paid, they must use a letter-number diagnosis listed in the International Classification of Disease (ICD-10) code book, which turns 1,400 human ailments into more than 68,000 codes. Examples of these “diagnoses” include: W55.21 (bitten by a cow); W61.33 (pecked by a chicken); V00.01 (pedestrian on foot injured in collision with roller blader); Z63.1 (problem with in-laws); and my personal favorite, Y92.146 (injured at a swimming pool within a prison).

Um, where has this guy been for the last decades, ICD has been around for a long long time because this thingy called Medicare requires that there be a standard by which billing is conducted. Now it twerent so bad until madam pelosis and bathhouse barry gave everyday Americans a unlubed proctological exam and started squeezing the bejeesus out of doctors forcing them to participate in the electronic records farce and so driving many small efficient practices (and doctors) out of business.

Unfortunately no matter if we completely destroy barrycare you can't put the genie back in the bottle, you just can't stop and turn the Titanic that is the federal government bureaucracy.

I know, my wife has been Certified Professional Coder and owned her own medical billing service for decades and I have to hear about this BS everyday.