Comments on: How will ICD-10 affect you? http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/11/how-will-icd-10-affect-you.html medical blog Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:59:44 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/11/how-will-icd-10-affect-you.html/comment-page-1#comment-88121 Anonymous Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:03:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/11/how-will-icd-10-affect-you.html#comment-88121 Psychiatry, does indeed have it's own numerical diagnostic coding system. But the third parties insist on theirs. Fortunately, most of the numbers are the same. <br/><br/>As for CPT, medicine did that one to themselves. Psychiatry, does indeed have it’s own numerical diagnostic coding system. But the third parties insist on theirs. Fortunately, most of the numbers are the same.

As for CPT, medicine did that one to themselves.

]]> By: Chuck Brooks http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/11/how-will-icd-10-affect-you.html/comment-page-1#comment-88119 Chuck Brooks Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:03:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/11/how-will-icd-10-affect-you.html#comment-88119 Starbucks, like most other successful companies, do well by satisfying customers at the point of purchase. They also have to track activity using methods that may seem completely arbitrary, such as UPC-A product marking and its rich and deep provider infrastructure, and they all do it without much effort. ICDxx is, effectively, a deliberate barrier that benefits policy makers in various ways, not the demands and requirements of a free market. It can only get worse. Why the doctors don't get together and come up with an alternative is a mystery.<br/><br/>Chuck Brooks<br/>FutureWare SCG Starbucks, like most other successful companies, do well by satisfying customers at the point of purchase. They also have to track activity using methods that may seem completely arbitrary, such as UPC-A product marking and its rich and deep provider infrastructure, and they all do it without much effort. ICDxx is, effectively, a deliberate barrier that benefits policy makers in various ways, not the demands and requirements of a free market. It can only get worse. Why the doctors don’t get together and come up with an alternative is a mystery.

Chuck Brooks
FutureWare SCG

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