claim: says new medicare billing guidelines "have nine codes for (injuries by) turkeys."
author: ted poe
evidence_1: feb 14, 2014 ... for decades now, reolubin — and the rest of the american health-care system  — has relied on an older version of this same medical compendium, icd-9. with  14,000 codes, icd-9 seems puny by comparison. the new manual explodes that  code set to 68,000 much more granular and detailed terms to ...
evidence_2: jan 2, 2014 ... that's because because icd-9 has outdated medical terms and not enough  detail for accurate claims processing, according to the centers for medicare and  medicaid services. in fact, the rest of the world began switching to the new codes  20 years ago, and now most developed countries now use it.
evidence_3: sep 20, 2012 ... some of the most dramatic surges in higher-cost billing codes have occurred in  hospital emergency rooms. hospitals are permitted to set their own rules for  billing outpatient charges and these payments are seldom audited by medicare.  the rise in costly coding and billing errors appears to be getting worse ...
evidence_4: w61.33xa …… initial encounter; w61.33xd …… subsequent encounter; w61. 33xs …… sequela. w61.39 other contact with chicken. w61.39xa …… initial  encounter; w61.39xd …… subsequent encounter; w61.39xs …… sequela.  w61.4 contact with turkey. w61.42 struck by turkey. w61.42xa …… initial  encounter ...
evidence_5: sep 13, 2011 ... the who, for instance, didn't see the need for 72 codes about injuries tied to  birds. but american doctors whose patients run afoul of a duck (see codes),  macaw (see codes), parrot (see codes), goose (see codes), turkey (see codes) or  chicken (see codes) will be able to select from nine codes for each ...