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	<title>Comments on: Reason #41 Health Care is So Expensive: Medical Codes for Being Struck by a Turtle at the Opera</title>
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		<title>By: coder1</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Aug 2013 12:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[it&#039;s too bad that you can&#039;t comprehend the fact that medical coding came AFTER the coding system was developed and was born out of necessity due to the red tape governed by insurance plans and other powers that be who constantly try to reduce, delay or deny provider reimbursement, as well as limit member coverage.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>it&#8217;s too bad that you can&#8217;t comprehend the fact that medical coding came AFTER the coding system was developed and was born out of necessity due to the red tape governed by insurance plans and other powers that be who constantly try to reduce, delay or deny provider reimbursement, as well as limit member coverage.</p>
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		<title>By: Paul</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 10:47:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;The greater good&quot; and &quot;collectively&quot;? This explains the main impetus behind Obamacare. It&#039;s hardcore socialism plain and simple. The individual has to sacrifice for the society&#039;s greater good. And like all good bureaucracies, their main job is to justify their existence and not provide service. And that goes for the parasitic groups that always seem to pop up in the private sector to take advantage of the overcomplexities. The Utopia these people think will be achieved is nothing but a dream-but the reality they dumped on us with the brute force of the federal government is truly a terrifying nightmare in the making.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;The greater good&#8221; and &#8220;collectively&#8221;? This explains the main impetus behind Obamacare. It&#8217;s hardcore socialism plain and simple. The individual has to sacrifice for the society&#8217;s greater good. And like all good bureaucracies, their main job is to justify their existence and not provide service. And that goes for the parasitic groups that always seem to pop up in the private sector to take advantage of the overcomplexities. The Utopia these people think will be achieved is nothing but a dream-but the reality they dumped on us with the brute force of the federal government is truly a terrifying nightmare in the making.</p>
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		<title>By: Holly J. Cassano</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Holly J. Cassano]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 02:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What a shame that when you broke down the article - you didn&#039;t have all your facts.  I have worked in the healthcare industry since 1996 and am a home grown coder who has been writing professionally for more than 7 years. I have worked as a practice manager for 11 years prior to obtaining my CPC in 2006, amongst other accomplishments and just launched my company last June.  If you checked me out on Linkedin before you trashed the article, you would have seen my areas of expertise and credentials. 
 
It is a shame that you truly don&#039;t understand our profession and why it is necessary - I have personally helped many providers over the course of my career as an employee and as a consultant. I have several physicians in my family and have always been an advocate for them. 
 
I do a lot of gratis work  and help employ a lot of independant contractors. I believe in the greater good for our healthcare system&#039;s future is better served by a team approach, as there is no &quot;I&quot; in team and working together collectively and harmoniously is the best approach to resolve. 
 
I hope that in the future, you can cast a more objective review of others in my profession. 
 
Best, 
 
Holly ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What a shame that when you broke down the article &#8211; you didn&#039;t have all your facts.  I have worked in the healthcare industry since 1996 and am a home grown coder who has been writing professionally for more than 7 years. I have worked as a practice manager for 11 years prior to obtaining my CPC in 2006, amongst other accomplishments and just launched my company last June.  If you checked me out on Linkedin before you trashed the article, you would have seen my areas of expertise and credentials. </p>
<p>It is a shame that you truly don&#039;t understand our profession and why it is necessary &#8211; I have personally helped many providers over the course of my career as an employee and as a consultant. I have several physicians in my family and have always been an advocate for them. </p>
<p>I do a lot of gratis work  and help employ a lot of independant contractors. I believe in the greater good for our healthcare system&#039;s future is better served by a team approach, as there is no &quot;I&quot; in team and working together collectively and harmoniously is the best approach to resolve. </p>
<p>I hope that in the future, you can cast a more objective review of others in my profession. </p>
<p>Best, </p>
<p>Holly </p>
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		<title>By: Edge Kingston</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Edge Kingston]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 03:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Definitely for a common man health care systems are now being very expensive that they are not able to afford any kind of health care programs. Since from last few year we have witnessed that President Obama almost take every precaution to deliver better health care facility to American public. But due to lack of proper utilization we are suffer from worst health care programs and facilities.  
&lt;a href=&quot;http://urgentcarenow.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;urgent medical care&lt;/a&gt; ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Definitely for a common man health care systems are now being very expensive that they are not able to afford any kind of health care programs. Since from last few year we have witnessed that President Obama almost take every precaution to deliver better health care facility to American public. But due to lack of proper utilization we are suffer from worst health care programs and facilities.<br />
<a href="http://urgentcarenow.com/" rel="nofollow">urgent medical care</a> </p>
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		<title>By: Jay</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jay]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2013 16:08:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More on the political shift by the New York Times in doctors when they switch from being independent business owners in their practices to employees of hospitals 
&quot; ...There are no national surveys that track doctors’ political leanings, but as more doctors move from business owner to shift worker, their historic alliance with the Republican Party is weakening from Maine as well as South Dakota, Arizona and Oregon, according to doctors’ advocates in those and other states. 
 
That change could have a profound effect on the nation’s health care debate. Indeed, after opposing almost every major health overhaul proposal for nearly a century, the American Medical Association supported President Obama’s legislation last year because the new law would provide health insurance to the vast majority of the nation’s uninsured, improve competition and choice in insurance, and promote prevention and wellness, the group said. 
 
Because so many doctors are no longer in business for themselves, many of the issues that were once priorities for doctors’ groups, like insurance reimbursement, have been displaced by public health and safety concerns, including mandatory seat belt use and chemicals in baby products. 
 
Even the issue of liability, while still important to the A.M.A. and many of its state affiliates, is losing some of its unifying power because malpractice insurance is generally provided when doctors join hospital staffs. ..He said that in his experience, conservatives prefer owning their own businesses. 
 
“People who are conservative by nature are not going to go into the profession,” he said, “because medicine is not about running your own shop anymore.” &quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/30/health/policy/30docs.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/30/health/policy/3...&lt;/a&gt; ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>More on the political shift by the New York Times in doctors when they switch from being independent business owners in their practices to employees of hospitals</p>
<p>&#8221; &#8230;There are no national surveys that track doctors’ political leanings, but as more doctors move from business owner to shift worker, their historic alliance with the Republican Party is weakening from Maine as well as South Dakota, Arizona and Oregon, according to doctors’ advocates in those and other states.</p>
<p>That change could have a profound effect on the nation’s health care debate. Indeed, after opposing almost every major health overhaul proposal for nearly a century, the American Medical Association supported President Obama’s legislation last year because the new law would provide health insurance to the vast majority of the nation’s uninsured, improve competition and choice in insurance, and promote prevention and wellness, the group said.</p>
<p>Because so many doctors are no longer in business for themselves, many of the issues that were once priorities for doctors’ groups, like insurance reimbursement, have been displaced by public health and safety concerns, including mandatory seat belt use and chemicals in baby products.</p>
<p>Even the issue of liability, while still important to the A.M.A. and many of its state affiliates, is losing some of its unifying power because malpractice insurance is generally provided when doctors join hospital staffs. ..He said that in his experience, conservatives prefer owning their own businesses.</p>
<p>“People who are conservative by nature are not going to go into the profession,” he said, “because medicine is not about running your own shop anymore.” &#8221; <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/30/health/policy/30docs.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0" rel="nofollow"></a><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/30/health/policy/3" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/30/health/policy/3</a>&#8230; </p>
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		<title>By: Jay</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jay]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2013 16:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The history of ICDs  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.who.int/classifications/icd/en/HistoryOfICD.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.who.int/classifications/icd/en/History...&lt;/a&gt; ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The history of ICDs<br />
  <a href="http://www.who.int/classifications/icd/en/HistoryOfICD.pdf" rel="nofollow"></a><a href="http://www.who.int/classifications/icd/en/History" rel="nofollow">http://www.who.int/classifications/icd/en/History</a>&#8230; </p>
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		<title>By: Jay</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jay]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2013 16:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The economies of scale has made it too difficult now for smaller physician practices to operate independently. Many are being bought by hospitals as a result. Physicians are shifting from being independent business owners of their own practices to employees at hospitals more and more. As a result you are going to see a political shift where it makes more sense for physicians to unionize like nurses have. 
 
ICD-10 was adopted 23 years ago. It is only now being implemented in the US. The purpose of ICDs:  
&quot;The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) is the standard diagnostic tool for epidemiology, health management and clinical purposes. This includes the analysis of the general health situation of population groups. It is used to monitor the incidence and prevalence of diseases and other health problems. 
 
It is used to classify diseases and other health problems recorded on many types of health and vital records including death certificates and health records. In addition to enabling the storage and retrieval of diagnostic information for clinical, epidemiological and quality purposes, these records also provide the basis for the compilation of national mortality and morbidity statistics by WHO Member States. It is used for reimbursement and resource allocation decision-making by countries. 
 
ICD-10 was endorsed by the Forty-third World Health Assembly in May 1990 and came into use in WHO Member States as from 1994. The 11th revision of the classification has already started and will continue until 2015.&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.who.int/classifications/icd/en/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.who.int/classifications/icd/en/&lt;/a&gt; ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The economies of scale has made it too difficult now for smaller physician practices to operate independently. Many are being bought by hospitals as a result. Physicians are shifting from being independent business owners of their own practices to employees at hospitals more and more. As a result you are going to see a political shift where it makes more sense for physicians to unionize like nurses have.</p>
<p>ICD-10 was adopted 23 years ago. It is only now being implemented in the US. The purpose of ICDs: </p>
<p>&#8220;The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) is the standard diagnostic tool for epidemiology, health management and clinical purposes. This includes the analysis of the general health situation of population groups. It is used to monitor the incidence and prevalence of diseases and other health problems.</p>
<p>It is used to classify diseases and other health problems recorded on many types of health and vital records including death certificates and health records. In addition to enabling the storage and retrieval of diagnostic information for clinical, epidemiological and quality purposes, these records also provide the basis for the compilation of national mortality and morbidity statistics by WHO Member States. It is used for reimbursement and resource allocation decision-making by countries.</p>
<p>ICD-10 was endorsed by the Forty-third World Health Assembly in May 1990 and came into use in WHO Member States as from 1994. The 11th revision of the classification has already started and will continue until 2015.&#8221; <a href="http://www.who.int/classifications/icd/en/" rel="nofollow">http://www.who.int/classifications/icd/en/</a> </p>
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		<title>By: figment</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[figment]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 12:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[my question, will there be any doctors left to implement any type of care?  
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>my question, will there be any doctors left to implement any type of care?  </p>
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		<title>By: Daniel Greenfield</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 04:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[O89M9 ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>O89M9 </p>
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		<title>By: Mary Sue</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mary Sue]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 03:35:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Code for accidental consumption of &quot;hash brownies&quot; by 2 people: 
 
OU812 ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Code for accidental consumption of &quot;hash brownies&quot; by 2 people: </p>
<p>OU812 </p>
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		<title>By: Daniel Greenfield</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 00:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>O1A2A </p>
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		<title>By: Ar&#039;nun</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ar&#039;nun]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 21:18:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is there a code for &quot;Progressives make blood shoot out of my eyes&quot;? ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is there a code for &quot;Progressives make blood shoot out of my eyes&quot;? </p>
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		<title>By: Mary Sue</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mary Sue]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 19:49:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Getting hit by a turtle at the opera (yeah, I know it&#039;s a joke) is about as likely to happen as seeing Shredder, Rocksteady and Beebop fight Splinter, Leonardo, Michaelangelo, Donatello, and Raphael at the Opera House. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Getting hit by a turtle at the opera (yeah, I know it&#039;s a joke) is about as likely to happen as seeing Shredder, Rocksteady and Beebop fight Splinter, Leonardo, Michaelangelo, Donatello, and Raphael at the Opera House. </p>
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		<title>By: Edward Cline</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Edward Cline]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 18:13:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This column is spot-on. Has anyone noticed the proliferation of ads on the Internet  that direct you to courses for a medical code billing career, such as the one that appears in the right-hand column of this article?  
 
&quot;Medical Coding. CampusCorner.com. MedicalCoding.CampusCorner.com. Find 2013 Medical Coding &amp; Billing Courses Near You &#8211; Apply Now!&quot;  
 
I suspect that most of these courses, regardless of the venue (actual classroom instruction or online instruction) can be paid for with government education grants. Most private teaching-a-trade schools, such as ECPI, are extensions of federal and state education rackets, supported by government grants to their students. Perhaps ICD-10 Code No. 68,004 will be: &quot;Trauma induced by belligerent student loan bill collectors.&quot;  
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This column is spot-on. Has anyone noticed the proliferation of ads on the Internet  that direct you to courses for a medical code billing career, such as the one that appears in the right-hand column of this article?  </p>
<p>&quot;Medical Coding. CampusCorner.com. MedicalCoding.CampusCorner.com. Find 2013 Medical Coding &amp; Billing Courses Near You &ndash; Apply Now!&quot;  </p>
<p>I suspect that most of these courses, regardless of the venue (actual classroom instruction or online instruction) can be paid for with government education grants. Most private teaching-a-trade schools, such as ECPI, are extensions of federal and state education rackets, supported by government grants to their students. Perhaps ICD-10 Code No. 68,004 will be: &quot;Trauma induced by belligerent student loan bill collectors.&quot;  </p>
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