[ilovesarah2012]

I am posting this for those involved in healthcare and to show how completely out of control the federal government is. There will now be 155,000 separate medical billing codes. I like the one for drowning by jumping off of burning water skies. And of course the alien abduction one. SMH

[Graybeard58]

Any “Big Bang Theory” fans out there?

Do they have a code for someone who got his penis trapped in the hand of a robot?

[Chode]

billing offices will take it on the chin bigtime as they can no longer do single hand code entry...

[txrefugee]

This is absolutely crazy. Who but the idiots running this oppressive government could come up with 155,000 medical codes?

[Ann Archy]

Could Obamacare get ANY MORE STUPID??

[Diogenesis]

Insane. The coding depends on how the patient felt about
the disease and the treatment (requiring subjective input),
and on the degree of how serious the problem was
(requiring subjective input).

THIS is designed to lead to 2 real problems.

First, accusations of miscoding and “fraud”,
and second to judging a treatment
not by if it CURES ... but if the patient was “happy”.

[Lockbox]

Case of bureaucrat thinking their work is more important then the doctor's! The question is which one actually treats the sick.......... then why slow down production!

examples of the insanity

V91.07XA – Burn due to water-skis on fire, initial encounter. Followed by V91.07xD - burn due to water-skis on fire, subsequent encounter.

code Y92146 - swimming pool of prison as the place of occurrence of the external cause.

[fruser1]

“V9733XA
(Sucked into jet engine, INITIAL ENCOUNTER), “

What’s left after the first time? I’d hate to be see the guy that gets sucked into a jet engine twice. Turned from juice to vapor?

[gunsmithkat]

A former employer of mine called last summer to see if I was available to work on new medical billing system software he was planning to develop for a major hospital group. I just laughed and laughed and laughed.

[snoopy 'n linus]

Great. The Clueless give us codes when their brains are lost in a world of computer codes that crash every ten microseconds. Good episode for the Twilight Zone.

[themidnightskulker]

1D-10t codes

[444Flyer]

W61.WWWT#-struck by Obamacare, patient unrevivable.