I do some medical billing in my job, and can tell you she's a dipshit. But, I also have a degree in genetic engineering, so maybe that helps me. 🤣 still don't think I should offer much medical advice beyond vax is good, talk to your Dr
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I’ve been medical coding for 17 years and I’ve coded measles, mumps, active syphilis, and a shit-ton of post-polio
jan 1, 2024, 2:45 pm • 64 2 • view
just out of curiosity, ever code leprosy? as I recall, when I was a candystriper in a hospital histology lab, we had a tissue sample in case we needed it for comparison.
dec 14, 2024, 3:04 am • 2 0 • view
Not yet but I expect Bobby Junior and his worm will make it great again soon enough
dec 14, 2024, 6:15 am • 8 0 • view
Yep. We see post-polio patients. It's still a valid ICD-10.
jan 1, 2024, 3:08 pm • 30 3 • view
It has a fairly solid age floor, though. Almost like something came along and stopped almost everyone from getting polio, at just about the same time everywhere. Wonder what that was, huh.
jan 1, 2024, 3:51 pm • 68 4 • view
Mysterious
dec 14, 2024, 2:02 am • 13 0 • view
🤔
jan 1, 2024, 7:08 pm • 2 0 • view
I worked in medical billing a bit almost fifteen years ago and to be fair it would have driven me insane as that person seems to be. Truly the underbelly of health care delivery.
dec 30, 2023, 6:24 am • 7 0 • view
I think the underbelly of healthcare is the insurance industry, not those who try to get paid for services that are allegedly covered. It is super frustrating to have to jump through multiple hoops to just get paid for what they said they'd cover in the first place. She's willfully ignorant.
dec 30, 2023, 1:26 pm • 5 0 • view
Oh yes, the amount of activity (and # of people) my employer engaged in, from printing claims for payers that ignored electronic submissions, to tracking reimbursement rates by code/by insurer, to provider network nonsense—the effort just to get paid was huge and represented tremendous overhead.
dec 30, 2023, 2:20 pm • 5 1 • view
I keep trying to tell them to run a costs/benefits on accepting insurance, especially the more difficult ones. I'd bet a paycheck it's pretty even
dec 30, 2023, 2:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Definitely worth considering from a provider standpoint, not so sure from a patient standpoint.
dec 30, 2023, 2:49 pm • 1 0 • view
And so I can only assume that prolonged exposure to that environment has caused the poor dear to lose the capability for rational judgement.
dec 30, 2023, 2:46 pm • 2 0 • view
Nope. That is willful ignorance. Not stress or exhaustion. Facts are not rational or irrational. You want to place a bet regarding what her social media is full of?
dec 30, 2023, 3:49 pm • 1 0 • view
I prefer to be patronizing and condescending in the face of obvious idiocy.
dec 30, 2023, 4:07 pm • 1 0 • view
I mean, why not mock someone who has so blatantly, publicly confused cause and effect? Dumb people should be laughed at.
dec 30, 2023, 4:13 pm • 1 0 • view
But it's time to finish loading the car. Have a safe and fun last weekend of 2023.
dec 30, 2023, 4:14 pm • 1 0 • view