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Codes, codes, and more codes!
patientswewillneverforget ♦ March 18, 2012 ♦ 1 Comment
Thumbing through the ICD-9 book of diagnostic codes is an eye-opening experience. For starters, who needs a code for “hit by a nuclear bomb?” I mean, will the patient or doctor need to worry about a proper Medicare ICD-9 code if a nuclear holocaust occurs? And how often does a patient survive a head-on collision …