it s not the cost it s the nutty stuff. i can t get past the nutty stuff to get to the cost. contact with venomous frog. there is no such thing as venomous frog. they have got it in there stephen hayes went and tried to find out if anyone in the world has ever died from flaming water skis. it s not true. what is going on. this has got to be the end. i m back with kirsten. this is crazy. steve hayes isn t here tonight. is this for real? he works for you. down in person. this is apparently learning this code is more difficult than learning mandarin chinese. making it up is more difficult. if you don t pay if you get the code wrong you might not get paid. that s the problem. one code for things that never happen. things that almost never happen. i m with kirsten, i still think this is a fake somehow. this can t be real. anyways, panel, thank you. coming up, 100 u.s. sailors say they are suffering life threatening illnesses. they blame radiation poisoning from the j
monica, basil, thank you both. more problems could be on the way for our nation s health care providers. there is a new medical coding system set to go into effect this fall but some worry it could make it much more difficult for patients to see their doctors and could even push some doctors out of business. garrett tenney has details from chicago. good to see you. what is this new billing system about and why should patients be concerned about it? reporter: yeah, uma, the new system is icd-10. this is a set of codes used by doctors to track what ailments you have and used by insurers to determine how much they will pay for specific treatment. this new system, it is very precisely coded. it has more than 68,000 codes for very specific diagnosis. for example, if someone gets burned by flaming water skis there is a code for precisely that. this current system, icd-9, has only 14,000 codes.
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again. or water ski or things. but you know, you also grow up. there are elements of life that i miss out. but, there never was sadness. reporter: and that may be the most remarkable part of his story. more than all charles has accomplished and all he does in a wheelchair. there is not a trace of self-pity. not a bit. everybody has their cross to bear. everybody. the cross i bear is pretty obvious. but on the scale of things, it ranks somewhere way below the top. you got two choices now. you re either going to live a good life. or you re going to live a miserable life. and that, to me, was a very easy choice. although his accident has kept him off water skis, charles was able to pursue another passion, chess. that is until he became so addicted to the game he says he forced himself to give it up. and that s it for today. have a great week. and we ll see you next sunday.