Waterskiing Used as Example for Medical Coding

[boarditup]

http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/code-chaos_783576.html?page=1

 

The article above uses waterskiing as an example of absurdity in the new medical coding scheme. Seriously, medical coding for an injury from skiing on buring waterskis. It is worth the reading time.

[ForrestGump]

I have obviously not been negligent enough in my water skiing. Now that I know there are all these new codes, I can really go hog wild. lol

[6balls]

The managers of our coding dept got me a t-shirt with that on it:

The diagnosis is "burn due to water skis on fire" and is code V91.07XA

 

Priceless, eh? The number of diagnosis codes in ICD-9 is plenty...the number of codes in I(CD-10 is ridiculous. This will significantly complicate healthcare and also create significant inefficiencies that do not change in meaningful fashion the quality or cost of care being delivered. It will increase the cost of providing care, however, which in the end will increase cost to cover same. Brilliant.

[Horton]

If this thread becomes political I will delete it

[crashman]

E928.4 external constriction caused by hair leading to submersion while waterskiing

[The_MS]

I am staying out of this.

[Glock]

It could happen.

 

http://waterskimag.com/files/2012/08/Screen-shot-2012-09-14-at-5.27.32-PM.png

[klindy]

@Glock it's my desktop image and forgot about it! Guess you're right - could happen!

[Skoot1123]

I found another code for us waterskiers - V91.07PA: drowning by waterskiing for seeing a rocking Panda.

[TylerR]

Ok @mattp we need to try to learn all the non leathal waterski codes now, I have an idea for a fun game we can play

[foxriverat]

@MS Me too

[TeamWally]

This isn't a political thread, it's simply governance by insane people.

[Zman]

Amazing. Are we sure these codes were not put together in a meeting in Denver - after pot was legalized? It must have been wicked fun putting these together and quenching their hunger with pizza.

In my engineering world, we have equipment failure codes, but learned decades ago that fewer and simpler and people will actually use them. Go figure.