Epidemiology
A Coincidence Is Not a Cause
Two causal claims, one framework, and what happens when journalism tries to do an epidemiologist's job.…
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HIPAA
The Folk Version of HIPAA
Most Americans have never read it. Those who have unwittingly abuse it.…
Medical Coding
How Specific Can You Get? — Medical Coding Fundamentals, Lesson 2
Laterality, episode of care, placeholder X's, and why the system demands a level of precision that the record often fails to capture.…
icd-10-CM
What's Wrong With You? —Medical Coding Fundamentals, Lesson 1
What ICD-10-CM is, where it came from, and why every diagnosis needs a code.…
Billing
The Bill You Can't Read
Hospitals are required by law to publish what they charge. As it turns out, it means absolutely nothing.…
HIM
The Engine and the Fuel
New AI health tools can now read your medical record, but nobody is making sure the record is worth reading.…
Newsletter
Goin' Off the Wrong Rulebook
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is pointing at a real problem and demanding evidence that cannot exist in a regulatory framework that was never designed to produce it.…
HIM
You Have ADHD. YOU Have ADHD! Everyone Has ADHD!
How a shadow diagnostic system got into the official record and why nobody cares.…
HIM
The Burden That Was Never Counted
How measles-associated hearing loss disappeared between codes…