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When squirrels attack! There’s a medical code for that. (New ICD-10 coding system)
Washington Post ^
| Feb 14, 2014
| Sarah Kliff
Posted on 02/15/2014 9:22:20 AM PST by Innovative
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Bureaucracy trumps actual medical care.
Doctors have to spend money on administrators to handle this and have to see more patients, resulting in less time per patient, just to pay them, to satisfy the government bureaucracy.
More "benefits" of Obamacare...
To: Innovative
In before the squirrel grenade link!
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posted on
02/15/2014 9:25:25 AM PST
by
null and void
(<--- unwilling cattle-car passenger on the bullet train to serfdom)
To: Innovative
Anything for Moose Bites?
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posted on
02/15/2014 9:27:59 AM PST
by
darkwing104
(Forgive but don't forget)
To: Innovative
Live gerbil inside rectum ? RG1 (Richard Gere-1).
To: Innovative; All
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posted on
02/15/2014 9:35:52 AM PST
by
SandRat
(Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
To: darkwing104
only Cheese/Whine/(habitual ;)Moose biting...
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posted on
02/15/2014 9:36:21 AM PST
by
skinkinthegrass
(The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi)
To: Innovative
Question about medical coding:
Have you heard of a scenario in which the attending physician/health care specialist is deliberately vague about a diagnosis because to be more specific (and accurate) in coding would require a new protocol and more troublesome paperwork?
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posted on
02/15/2014 9:37:13 AM PST
by
thecodont
To: Innovative
My first job at the hospital for which I worked (for 20 years) required me to refer occasionally to the ICD-9,the version before the current one.This volume contained about 20 pages of just fevers...the names of some of which were hysterical.But admittedly,experiencing the fevers themselves probably wasn’t much fun.But my favorite one,name-wise,was “Bwamba Fever”.
To: SandRat
and we've got plenty of 'Em!
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posted on
02/15/2014 9:37:32 AM PST
by
skinkinthegrass
(The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi)
To: fieldmarshaldj
Live gerbil inside rectum ? RG1 (Richard Gere-1). A battle hardened big-city ER nurse I once worked with told me once of all the "foreign objects" that she's seen inserted in people's private areas.My favorite one was light bulbs.
To: null and void
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posted on
02/15/2014 9:40:47 AM PST
by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: Gay State Conservative
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posted on
02/15/2014 9:43:22 AM PST
by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: darkwing104
Noooooo, but there are separate codes for bites to the left buttock and right buttock...
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posted on
02/15/2014 9:48:56 AM PST
by
null and void
(<--- unwilling cattle-car passenger on the bullet train to serfdom)
To: Innovative
Squirrels, nature’s little speed bumps.
But seriously, do squirrels carry rabies? I’m pretty sure turkeys and moose do not. I know that in some states squirrels are vectors for the plague. I’ve watched way too much “House.”
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02/15/2014 9:49:01 AM PST
by
Mercat
To: Innovative
Koro is a culture-specific syndrome in which an individual has an overpowering belief that his or her genitals (e.g., penis or female nipples) are retracting and will disappear, despite the lack of any true longstanding changes to the genitals.
Koro is also known as shrinking penis, and it is listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
The syndrome occurs worldwide, and mass hysteria of genital-shrinkage anxiety has a history in Africa, Asia, and Europe. In the United States and Europe, the syndrome is commonly known as genital retraction syndrome. The condition can be diagnosed through psychological assessment along with physical examination to rule out genuine disorders of the genitalia that could be causing true retraction.[
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posted on
02/15/2014 9:50:51 AM PST
by
JoeProBono
(SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
To: Innovative
What about gophers? Do they get their own code?
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posted on
02/15/2014 9:52:53 AM PST
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: Gay State Conservative
I talked to one, too. She said the gay “patients” were the worst with inserted objects they couldn’t get out.
To: JoeProBono
The Use It or Lose It Syndrome.
To: blueunicorn6
The CS series (as in Carl Spackler).
To: Innovative
ICD-10 has been coming for YEARS... looks like it might actually happen this time
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02/15/2014 10:09:47 AM PST
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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