It’s the end of month and so the craziest time of the month is among us!

I love House MD. It’s one of my favorite shows of all time. But as a Professional Fee Surgical Coder, I would have to get paid some serious money to code his and his team’s procedures. Not only is the diagnoses for the patients wacky (and would most likely have “other” tacked to them and half of them being “post-procedural complications”) the procedures themselves would most likely be unlisted codes that would make Quality Management’s brain explode.

Not to mention, Dr. House never does his notes, clinic time, rounds, operative, most likely post operative. (Actually, he’d make someone on the team do the post op visits, who am I kidding) I imagine he’d be suspended on a regular basis until he is *needed* so he gets away with not doing his notes far more often than he should.

I can’t imagine being the one reaching out to him as his coder saying “please provide your op note/office note/rounds”so I can get this billed for you…::snort:: I don’t think House has any idea about timely filing… you know that hospital is paying through the nose for him and his team…

Yep. That would be a freaking nightmare…

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