On my last doctor visit, he picked up a piece of paper on his desk that had the new treatment codes mandated by Obamacare and mumbled something about how it was slowing everything down.
I don’t know anything about those codes but I suspect it may be similar to what I went through over thirty years ago with an employer. I worked as a tech rep and we had to fill out a service report on every call using a ball point pen on a printed multi-part form. Generally the form could be completed in less than five minutes. Some genius got the idea that we needed to use codes and a new form which required the codes be entered with a number two graphite pencil. By the time you looked up all the necessary code numbers it could easily take forty five minutes to fill out one form, they finally gave it up until some years later new technology was available so the info could be entered into a computer by phone modem. By then I had started my own business in competition with them.
I never figured out why they ever thought for one minute that system would work, it depended on optical character recognition and required that each number of a code be entered perfectly with a pencil, each number in its own tiny block, perfectly shaped, not touching the outer lines of the block, not too small, not too light and they expected this from a bunch of techs who, in many cases, could not even write legibly. They were hired for their ability to diagnose a problem quickly and fix it quickly, not for their graphic artistry. My handwriting is atrocious but ironically I was one of the best at filling out those forms because I had given up on cursive and block printed everything so that it could be read.