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This 5 page paper responds to different questions, most of which involve medical coding beginning with the constructs that affect medical coding. Other topics include cost shifting, time studies, case mix management, implementing electronic medical records and ethical lapses of two physicians discussing a patient while riding in an elevator. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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al., 2007). The medical codes are supposed to be universal but because there is human interpretation involved, it is extremely difficult to assure complete accuracy. There are many constructs
in the medical coding environment. One has already been cited, human interpretation of regular or ordinary language. The issue is more involved when we consider the health care providers diagnoses.
This, again is open to error and inaccuracies in coding. For example, an elderly woman taken to the emergency department is diagnosed with a headache but the woman had presented
symptoms of a stroke. By the time the ER physician saw the woman, the only symptom was the pain in her occipital and parietal lobes. This plays directly to the
human diagnosis construct because the woman was not examined quickly enough. The accuracy of medical coding is critical for a number of reasons, one of which is insurance reimbursement
(Xu et al., 2007). Another is that it is these very codes that are interpreted in terms of risk of insuring each person (Xu et al., 2007). So,
as these authors point out, medical coding "drives the cash flow by which health care providers operate" (Xu et al., 2007). Medical coding is also used to identify and
classify medical errors (Pace et al., 2005). In fact, there are taxonomies to classify errors but they are not standardized (Pace et al., 2005). These authors suggest developing a unified
taxonomy so that errors are all coded the same way (Pace et al., 2005). In either of the cases briefly discussed, advanced technology could be used to standardize medical coding
in all its different settings. Even so, the constructs of medication errors, human interpretation, communication between offices and professionals, and judgment errors would still exist. The best that can be
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