Comments on: ICD-10 is going to be expensive and painful http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/11/icd-10-is-going-to-be-expensive-and.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:28:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/11/icd-10-is-going-to-be-expensive-and.html#comment-88127 Anonymous Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:30:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/11/icd-10-is-going-to-be-expensive-and-painful.html#comment-88127 Deron: Sure they did. The benefits are theirs, the costs are ours. End of analysis. Deron: Sure they did. The benefits are theirs, the costs are ours. End of analysis.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/11/icd-10-is-going-to-be-expensive-and.html#comment-88073 Anonymous Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:34:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/11/icd-10-is-going-to-be-expensive-and-painful.html#comment-88073 One question: why?<br/>What in the world does this have to do with taking care of patients?<br/>It is just away to harrass doctors, done with the complete collusion of the AMA. It disproportionately impacts primary care, because we need to be familiar with more codes. Yet one more way to squeeze blood from a stone. One question: why?
What in the world does this have to do with taking care of patients?
It is just away to harrass doctors, done with the complete collusion of the AMA. It disproportionately impacts primary care, because we need to be familiar with more codes. Yet one more way to squeeze blood from a stone.

]]> By: Deron Schriverhttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/11/icd-10-is-going-to-be-expensive-and.html#comment-88066 Deron Schriver Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:18:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/11/icd-10-is-going-to-be-expensive-and-painful.html#comment-88066 Did anyone do a cost-benefit analysis before proposing ICD-10? Clearly not! Did anyone do a cost-benefit analysis before proposing ICD-10? Clearly not!

]]> By: Chuck Brookshttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/11/icd-10-is-going-to-be-expensive-and.html#comment-88054 Chuck Brooks Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:12:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/11/icd-10-is-going-to-be-expensive-and-painful.html#comment-88054 Perhaps the bright lights in Washington should enact a 'windfall profits' tax on the insurance companies. The spread between their rising premiums and decreasing payments to Doctors can only increase with so many new ways to deny claims.<br/><br/>Chuck Brooks<br/>FutureWare SCG Perhaps the bright lights in Washington should enact a ‘windfall profits’ tax on the insurance companies. The spread between their rising premiums and decreasing payments to Doctors can only increase with so many new ways to deny claims.

Chuck Brooks
FutureWare SCG

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