My Twitter feed today is alive with so much infectious disease related news that I’m having a major ID NERD moment. Therefore I’m sharing! New AIDS-like Disease in Asians, Not Contagious This first news item made me wonder if I had fallen behind in my medical journal reading because it’s the first I am hearing […]
ICD Codes: You Will be the Death of Me.
This is a continuation of my earlier rant on Medicare/Medicaid. …Earlier this week, it was another patient. Also with osteomyelitis (a bone infection). Doing well however. I still had this patient on antibiotics and wanted to get bloodwork to monitor for potential adverse effects of the antibiotics. Knowing that bloodwork requires an ICD-code for billing […]