More insantity coming to doctors courtesy of the ACA

Posted by Robbie53024 11 years, 1 month ago to Government

How much time is this going to add to the administrative portion of patient care? Can you imagine trying to find the correct code for a specific patient issue among 155,000 of them?

SOURCE URL: http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/code-chaos_783576.html

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Posted by khalling 11 years, 1 month ago

the article was interesting and somewhat entertaining. Think about how many high level administrators and doctors will actually train to the codes-making what should be a low skill job suddenly the weak link in a practice or hospital. If you mistakenly miscode-you either do not receive payment or are flagged for fraud. Purely for control reasons not for communication needs. Evil, really

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Posted by richrobinson 11 years, 1 month ago

Would it not be prudent to just create an "other" category for all the weird stuff. Government sucks.

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  Posted by Robbie53024 11 years, 1 month ago
  
  No, because the government really wants this info. To be able to control.
  
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Posted by freedomforall 11 years, 1 month ago

Golly, don't you wish YOU worked for something as impressive as "American Academy of Professional Coders"?

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Posted by BambiB 11 years, 1 month ago

I foresee many code VX69114Ns with suffixes a-z.

That would be "government auditor shot/impaled/strangled/bludgeoned/exsanguinated/smothered/drowned/feed to ants/mauled by attack dogs/burned/frozen/ejected from tall building (etc.)" while auditing insurance submissions.

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Posted by BambiB 11 years, 1 month ago

So what's the code for injury during forced landing of a space ship caused by attempted suicide by jellyfish while standing on burning water skis?

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  Posted by Robbie53024 11 years, 1 month ago
  
  Are the water skis wood or fiberglass?
  
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  Posted by Rozar 11 years, 1 month ago
  
  I had a cousin who had that.
  
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Posted by SolitudeIsBliss 11 years, 1 month ago

Wonder if Obamacare will have a regulation for an infection caused by a splinter I got while carving Obama statues with a jackhammer?

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  Posted by Robbie53024 11 years, 1 month ago
  
  Red jackhammer or blue? :-)
  
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Posted by straightlinelogic 11 years, 1 month ago

Take care of yourself, because if you get sick the medical system will no longer take care of you. All the doctors and nurses are going to be looking up codes.

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Posted by Abaco 11 years, 1 month ago

I actually am starting to pity doctors - the good ones, anyway. Our pediatrician has fired one employee (small practice) in adjusting for O-Care. Yeay big government!

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