One Symptom in New Medical Codes: Doctor Anxiety
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/14/us/politics/one-symptom-in-new-medical-codes-doctor-anxiety.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
The more than 100,000 new codes, which will take effect
on Oct. 1, have potential benefits, as they will require doctors
to make a deeper assessment of many patients. But the change is
causing waves of anxiety among health care providers, who fear
that claims will be denied and payments delayed if they do not
use the new codes, or do not use them properly. Some doctors and
hospitals are already obtaining lines of credit because they
fear that the transition to the new system will cause cash-flow
problems.
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This could end up being a situation where the desire to collect more
detailed data ends up killing people.
--Lauren--
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