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[Masha]

[Masha]

I must wonder if any of my doctors pad their bills by adding: R46.1 to my visits.

[Masha]

[jamesjazzguitar]

I must wonder if any of my doctors pad their bills by adding: R46.1 to my visits.

I work with IDC-10 codes daily. I looked up the description of R46.1 in our database and it is indeed BIZARRE PERSONAL APPEARANCE.

You got me so curious, that now I'm going to have to search the claimant database to see if any physician has ever assigned this IDC-10 code to one of their patients.

[txfilmfan]

I must wonder if any of my doctors pad their bills by adding: R46.1 to my visits.

I work with IDC-10 codes daily. I looked up the description of R46.1 in our database and it is indeed BIZARRE PERSONAL APPEARANCE.

You got me so curious, that now I'm going to have to search the claimant database to see if any physician has ever assigned this IDC-10 code to one of their patients.

The most common one:

Z63.1 : Problems in relationship with in-laws.

All of those are real ICD-10 codes. You can look them up on Google and find more, to boot.

[Masha]

I work with IDC-10 codes daily. I looked up the description of R46.1 in our database and it is indeed BIZARRE PERSONAL APPEARANCE.

You got me so curious, that now I'm going to have to search the claimant database to see if any physician has ever assigned this IDC-10 code to one of their patients.

I asked a person who works with billing and she stated that her only experience with R46.1 was when the police transported a person who was so unconventional that it appeared that they might have drug or mental health issues. Blood test and an in-ER evaluation showed that the pt. was not under the influence and were not a danger to themselves or others. Such encounters generally split between drugs, mental health issues or both and so fall under different codes. R46.1 seems to be for those rare times when there are no other issues.

She audits the billing of nearly two hundred hospitals and has done so for several decades. The fact that she has had a single encounter with R46.1 speaks to its rarity.

[Dargo]

I work with IDC-10 codes daily. I looked up the description of R46.1 in our database and it is indeed BIZARRE PERSONAL APPEARANCE.

You got me so curious, that now I'm going to have to search the claimant database to see if any physician has ever assigned this IDC-10 code to one of their patients.

I asked a person who works with billing and she stated that her only experience with R46.1 was when the police transported a person who was so unconventional that it appeared that they might have drug or mental health issues. Blood test and an in-ER evaluation showed that the pt. was not under the influence and were not a danger to themselves or others. Such encounters generally split between drugs, mental health issues or both and so fall under different codes. R46.1 seems to be for those rare times when there are no other issues.

She audits the billing of nearly two hundred hospitals and has done so for several decades. The fact that she has had a single encounter with R46.1 speaks to its rarity.

Hmmm...funny that this designation would be so rarely applied now days, I'd say...and considering all the tatted-up and various pierced body parts I see so many of the kids sportin' today!

(...say, did that make me sound like an old fart here or WHAT?!!!) LOL

[Dargo]

Guess the age of this calling card being considered "bizarre" are long past now days, eh?!...



(...and now I wonder if one can "learn a lot" from any of all those tatted-up kids I see out there today as well?...doubt any of 'em have one depicting "the wreck of the Hesperus" though, let alone "the Battle of Waterloo", and knowing how the kids out there today don't seem to give a damn about history anymore)

[Masha]

[TikiSoo]

For Dargo:



(then add "in my 30's")

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