Comments on: How doctors are at the mercy of ICD coding http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/01/how-doctors-are-at-mercy-of-icd-coding.html medical blog Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:35:28 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Terri Champlin http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/01/how-doctors-are-at-mercy-of-icd-coding.html/comment-page-1#comment-89175 Terri Champlin Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:05:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2009/01/how-doctors-are-at-the-mercy-of-icd-coding.html#comment-89175 And when I get a bill for a "covered" procedures I have the complexity of those #@$ codes to blame. And when I get a bill for a “covered” procedures I have the complexity of those #@$ codes to blame.

]]> By: The Happy Hospitalist http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/01/how-doctors-are-at-mercy-of-icd-coding.html/comment-page-1#comment-89174 The Happy Hospitalist Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:14:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2009/01/how-doctors-are-at-the-mercy-of-icd-coding.html#comment-89174 Don't get me started. Not only do we have to code the ICD, we have to document for CPT. We also have to document so the hospital gets paid.<br/><br/>The sound of silence you hear in the patient room is the lack of face time with your doctor. They are all in the other room looking up ICD codes. Don’t get me started. Not only do we have to code the ICD, we have to document for CPT. We also have to document so the hospital gets paid.

The sound of silence you hear in the patient room is the lack of face time with your doctor. They are all in the other room looking up ICD codes.

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