Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Increased Codes, Increased Costs

Medical decision making isn’t easy—no matter how long you’ve been in the healthcare industry or how well you know the codes. And unfortunately, it’s about to get even tougher. The government has created some new rules that are going to have an impact on medical billing codes in the near future.  


While healthcare professionals only have to be familiar with 14,000 codes right now, that should jump to a scary 68,000 once the changeover is complete!  

FutureofCapitalism.com recently published a news article showing some of the new system’s crazier codes, which include a code for spacecraft collisions and a code for a parrot bite during a first-time encounter with the bird.

Not only will these new codes change medical decision making for healthcare professionals, but getting the new codes set up and working is going to be quite costly and difficult for healthcare facilities.

Like it or not, the change is coming however. The best thing you can do is to make your job easier any way you can, which is something you can easily do with help from the DeductorMD app!


If you are a healthcare clinician, are you using todays new healthcare app, DeductorMD?

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