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cokehabit
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| slycordinator wrote: | | cokehabit wrote: | | And they are supposed to be a coding company? Pfft. Mine are all xhtml 1.0 strict and pass validation |
They're not a software coding company.
They seem to be providing a list of health-provider codes. Unlike the medical codes used now, the ones this company uses also has code numbers for all kinds of complementary & alternative medicine stuff that the ICD-9 codes don't have.
And it looks like they have it work along-side/with the ICD-9 codes. |
In english please... I got the first bit which was "open your eyes and read web pages properly you twat" but what was the bit about health about? |
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slycordinator
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| Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 7:02 am Post subject: |
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| cokehabit wrote: | | but what was the bit about health about? |
In medicine they use certain codes (just a letter and number put together I think) to represent a diagnosis of a problem.
There are also coding for different treatments that are being provided, charged for, requested, etc. So like if you reccommend someone be seen by a specialist (like a dermatologist, or whatever) there'd be a code for that.
So what this company is providing is a set of codes for representing stuff provided by "complementary and alternative medicine" that aren't covered in other coding sets.
So like a doctor could reccommend that you see an acupuncturist and in many states acupuncturists are licensed so your insurance would cover it. And using their system you could make a nice short, concise code to represent the person being sent to see an acupuncturist. |
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cokehabit
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| Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 8:25 am Post subject: |
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| slycordinator wrote: | | So like a doctor could reccommend that you see an acupuncturist |
you're kidding right? They send people to that rubbish? |
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slycordinator
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| Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 9:11 am Post subject: |
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| cokehabit wrote: | | you're kidding right? They send people to that rubbish? |
I was using that as an example. They could use the various codes to represent anything that's not part of standard medical stuff.
Like a doctor could refer you to a chiropractor, massage therapist, Physician Assistant, nursing specialist, etc. Using these codes would make it simpler/shorter to describe. It breaks things down for you to make the billing easier since you have all these codes.
btw: Acupuncture has had good success with some issues; especially issues such as muscle spasms or other things related to muscles.
Also, I'm actually applying to a program for acupuncture & oriental medicine. Though, I'm more interested in the "oriental medicine" part (which deals with herbal medicine mostly).
And no, most doctors don't send people to acupuncturists. |
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cokehabit
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phew, i had this funny thought of everyone smelling of burning essence  |
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| atrus123 wrote: | | If you knew this article was such ancient history, why even drudge it up? Drobbins is done with MSFT; he's a developer again; he's working for an open source company. Go, Drobbins, go. |
Err.. it's less than a year ago, and it's about his attitude to Free software, which I thought was interesting. No more than that.
Personally I'm glad he's back at gentoo, and I have no problem at all with him being paid by gentoo. After all, if he can't earn off it, no one else should (since he started the project.)
BTW who is actually paid by gentoo, does anyone know? (Oddfox said he was hoping to get a job here.) |
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