Doctors and hospitals now use about 18,000 codes to indicate the procedures they use when treating patients.
However, federal mandates will increase the number to about 140,000, And this is just the beginning, as ObamaCare is yet to be implemented.
The idea is to describe every and any procedure a doctor may do for a patient.. I also smell a road map for tort lawyers. ( See the Earl J Weinreb NewsHole® comments.)
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