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Struck By A Duck: The Strangest Codes In The US Medical Billing System
When Americans go to the doctor, there’s a medical code that determines how their treatment gets billed. Getting treated for urban rabies? Well, that’s distinct from woods-based sylvatic rabies, and the invoice will reflect that. Until today, the system in the US was the same one they used in the 1970s. But there’s a new…