The highest-profile name running for the soon-to-be vacated seat of Florida congresswoman Val Demings is undoubtedly ex-state attorney Aramis Ayala. However, one of Ayala's challengers.
wow! this week, hospitals in the united states had to adopt internationally developed standards that sounds like the metric system. sounds awful. called icd-10. the codes, detailing a person s manner of death or injuries. there are now tens of thousands of specific and official ways that you could die. all of them very serious. like you could be struck by a macaw. that s a real one. not struck by a bird or struck by a parrot, but specifically killed or injured by a macaw. or you could experience burns due to water skis on fire. which, of course, happens all the time. when you re skiing in a lake. and then there s the swimming pool of prison as a place of occurren occurrence. what if you re struck by a macao on flaming water skis in prison? what then? what are your codes then, smart government? so this drives me absolutely crazy. because i think we have enough problems in our health care
everything from suicide by jellyfish to collision with a horse drawn carriage. why are they doing this? the obama administration said lead to more specific reporting by doctors and hospital, reduce billing fraud and help identify disease outbreaks faster. icd 10, tenth version of international classifications of diseases list. take a look at the sheer number of diagnosis codes, going up from 14,000 to 69,000, including additions for people who commit suicide by jellyfish or injured in a horse drawn carriage or injured by a spacecraft, increasing from 13,000 to 85,000. there is a deadline to implement all the new codes. the head of the centers for medicare and medicaid services said, quote, there will be no change in the deadline.
tavenner degree to do end to end testing of the system for the next five months. gretchen. i can t imagine what has the reaction been from the medical community thus far. a lot of anxiety. while american medical association, ama said they are pleased end to end testing of the system, the group went on to say they continue to earn cms to reconsider icd-10 mandate during a time when physicians are struggling to keep up with many other costly federal mandates. according to a recent affirm ma cost study, mandated implementation of icd-10 code set alone will be dramatically more expensive for most physician practices than previously estimated. some doctors already are saying this new system is extremely complicated. it s going to be time consuming. for me i will be spending way more time adapting to changes as
swing district and you wake up to politico with this headline, what exactly are you thinking? this was about how the money people and some strategist think. democrats are like, see the house? we re never going to win that. that may be what you think but to say it outloud? candy, i don t think if i m waking up in the morning and i call steve israel, i don t think steve israel will say we ve ceded the house. the rcc is the minority party, they don t have the advantages of controlling the house of representatives. you have a number of seats out there that i think potentially become very contested. as we saw it in 2012 when, as you recall, democrats were supposed to lose seats in the senate and instead ended up picking them up. it is highly unpredictable and these races often come down to quality of the candidates. one telltale sign virginia