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Old 28th Jun 2019, 10:38
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averow
 
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It gets worse. The bureaucrats that gave us excruciatingly detailed diagnosis codes also added even finer subsets of codes for this rare event, insisting on different coding for:
"Sucked into jet engine" vs "Sucked into jet engine, initial encounter" vs "Sucked into jet engine, subsequent encounter" and of course "Sucked into jet engine, sequela".

Woe be to the doctor or coder who puts in the wrong code for the event.
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