The 10th revision of the ICD (International Classification of Diseases) codes is coming out in about a year. This may be the wafer that explodes the fat guy (Monty Python reference) and pushes more docs to quit, retire or leave Medicare/Medicaid than anything else. Going from 18,000 codes to 140,000 is seemingly impossible but not for our administrators/government. Why do this? This is done to industrialize medicine even more and break patients down into numbers and not people. How can we have fun with it? Well, it seems the Wall Street Journal has done it for us. Go to this link and just start putting in terms. You will find codes for EVERYTHING. I found 9 codes related to turtle encounters and bites. Enjoy and then come to the realization, like I did, that the people running our healthcare system are absolute f*cking morons.
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