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Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?

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Post by digikata »

wl wrote: post #134
r0m4n0 wrote: post #117

Browsing medical diagnosis codes... https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Coding/ICD10/2016-ICD-10-CM-and... Some of the most mildly interesting: V9543XD Spacecraft collision injuring occupant, subsequent encounter W5602XD Struck by dolphin, subsequent encounter X35XXXD Volcanic eruption, subsequent encounter X52XXXD Prolonged stay in weightless environment, subsequent encounter Y0881XD Assault by crashing of aircraft, subseq…

There seems to be some misunderstanding what is meant by "subsequent encounter" in this context. These are codes for office visits. "Subsequent encounter" means that a patient is not seeing a physician for the first time about their injury. There are also codes for "initial encounter."

So initial vs subsequent encounter are completely different codes? Wouldn't this approach double the number of codes? Why wouldn't this be some other field of data associated with the form instead of mixing it up in the diagnostic 'topic'.

I know nothing about medical diagnosis codes.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?

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Post by protomyth »

ghurtado wrote: post #184
protomyth wrote: post #177

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Severity of injury?

I've gotta believe that some dolphin injuries are more severe than some orca injuries. At any rate, once the code describes a situation so specific that it may only classify a few injuries a year, what possible benefit may come from that?

Am I missing a table since I can find the orca thing, but it doesn't have a listing for bear. Please tell me bears are a bigger danger than orcas?

// holy crud, the comment section is now a rabbit hole - good job karim

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?

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Post by bduerst »

snovv_crash wrote: post #193
protomyth wrote: post #175

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sadly, my first job out of college involved these codes after we wrote a rural health grant. The money and pain that went into that thing still wakes me up at night. The codes (and the cost of acquiring the "book" along with filling out the forms) gave me fits and actually made me think heavily about calling in sick for work each morning in the shower.

There must be a code for that...

ICD10-code induced trauma and anxiety, initial encounter

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?

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Post by protomyth »

snovv_crash wrote: post #193
protomyth wrote: post #175

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sadly, my first job out of college involved these codes after we wrote a rural health grant. The money and pain that went into that thing still wakes me up at night. The codes (and the cost of acquiring the "book" along with filling out the forms) gave me fits and actually made me think heavily about calling in sick for work each morning in the shower.

There must be a code for that...

I would expect its more the domain of the other document I dread: the DSM-IV
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