Yes, another nail in the coffin of our once-best health care system in the world.
And this is yet another reason why we must take back the Senate and keep the House in November, and make POTUS quack like a lame duck.
Via Investor’s Business Daily: New Rule Creates Avalanche Of Time-Wasting Paperwork For Doctors
Were you hit by a falling kayak? Injured while baking, vacuuming or spending too much time in a deep freeze? Encountered a lamppost for the second time? Were you bitten by a turkey? Never fear, the ICD-10 is here.
Starting this October, your doctor will be required to record precisely whether you were bitten or struck by a parrot, macaw, chicken, turkey, or any “other psittacines,” or encountered any one of 140,000 other specific medical conditions, injuries or diseases….
Medical providers who participate in Medicare, Medicaid and any other federal health program must follow highly detailed coding requirements to get paid — on top of trying to wade through the mounting complexities of ObamaCare.
For 30 years, the U.S. has used the ninth revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-9), but the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is requiring virtually all hospitals, laboratories and medical offices to convert to the more complex ICD-10 coding system on Oct. 1….
….Because this coding system directly facilitates payments, physicians who do not transition on time will experience a delay or cessation of payments. To weather this transition, CMS suggests that small and medium-size practices should have access to “reserve funds or lines of credit to offset cash flow challenges.”
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society recommends “a minimum of six months of cash reserves to mitigate revenue impacts over the ICD-10 transformation period.” Few physician practices have access to those resources….
Somehow there doesn’t seem to be a code for “physician buried under an avalanche of paperwork.”
Related:
NY Post: How Obamacare slaps the sick
Forbes: Dr. Marc Siegel — Will Your Doctor Quit? Obamacare Foretells Mass Exodus From Patient Care
Wow, Shifra. The GOP would have to try really hard to end up losing in November. The juicy details of OCrapoCare just keep getting better and better, don’t they? Ads should be running 24/7 in every State where a Democrat is up for re-election. Every Democrat in the House and Senate should have to wear this thing around their neck like an albatross. Ads with Dirty Harry calling Americans liars, over 6 million cancellation notices, skyrocketing/unaffordable premiums, and OBummer repeating his Lie of the Year. You can argue theory all day long, but you can’t argue against someone’s personal experience with this monster.
I wonder if there a code for Democrats whose chickens came home to roost.
Yes there is, and we are the chickens they are squeezing the eggs out of. 🙁
These problems are real. I just saw my doctor, who was complaining (without any prompting from me; he just came out with it) about the paperwork, and also the patients he was losing because they were forced to switch to policies and he was now outside their plans. I mentioned that I was clinging to my old PPO plan, even though the price had gone up 130%, costing me an additional $2500 a year. He said I was lucky, and should keep that policy if I could. That’s my intent; I don’t want to be pushed into an HMO. This is kind of funny, in its terrible way: The “Affordable Care Act” promised to lower costs and make it easier to switch policies, but instead costs have skyrocketed and if I lose my policy, I won’t be able to get another like it. And the Democrats just deny and deny and deny, and hope that the people that don’t directly experience the carnage will think it’s a right-wing rumor.
Yes, we all have been bitten by the turkey in the White House.
Yes Chuck, and I think that it’s rabid!
Chuck, we do *not* have a turkey in the WH. He’s a dodo bird…
Ahhhhhh…the good old ICD-10’s are finally here. This change over has actually been in the works for many years and they just kept putting it off. So now the conversion to the new ICD-10’s just happens to coincide with the implementation of ObuttCare. Could things get any more interesting?!?!?! All I can say is that I am eternally grateful that after 15 years I no longer work for Medicaid/Medi-Cal. Instead, I work for a wonderful insurance company, that will remain anonymous, that is getting more work than it can handle from all the new policies that will be going into effect next year. Yes, I don’t think, I know, it is going to get A LOT more interesting.