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So it turns out that the anesthesia department at B&W uses a single code to stand for several different surgeries, relying on the diagnostic code to tell the insurer what is going on.
And telling the consumer/patient NOTHING AT ALL.
I mean, when you go to a fancy restaurant and pay, oh, $35 for truffled goose liver or sake-soaked squid or something, would you be happy if your check showed thaat you had a grilled cheese sandwich with a code to tell your credit card company what you really had?
Some sort of action may be in order.
Eric was raging against The System he has to fight with all the time to get communication happening between the departments so they don't lose any more of his patients (not to death--to really being lost!). Getting medicine to communicate has become his life mission. I gave some comic relief to his ranting by reading your bloggue aloud to him. Thanks.
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