And the award for busiest tweeter goes to … MedData.
Who, you ask? MedData is a Brecksville, Ohio-based vendor of healthcare revenue-cycle management technology. What’s really important here is that the company is behind @EveryICD10, a Twitter account that has been tweeting out — you guessed it — every ICD-10 code.
Between July 9 and Oct. 9, @EveryICD10 tweeted 69,763 times. That’s an average of 750 tweets per day, or more than one tweet every two minutes for 93 days. For a while, the account was tweeting every minute, so let’s hope it was automated. (UPDATE, Oct. 21: It was.)
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There are some good ones in the new code set, which has been praised for its specificity. And specific it is. Every one of these is now a billable medical diagnosis. Some are laughable, some cringeworthy.
W58.19XA Other contact with crocodile, initial encounter #icd10
— EveryICD10 (@EveryICD10) October 5, 2015
Y35.113D Legal intervention involving injury by dynamite, suspect injured, subsequent encounter #icd10
— EveryICD10 (@EveryICD10) October 4, 2015
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Z62.6 Inappropriate (excessive) parental pressure #icd10
— EveryICD10 (@EveryICD10) October 4, 2015
Z89.439 Acquired absence of unspecified foot #icd10
— EveryICD10 (@EveryICD10) October 2, 2015
V91.07XD Burn due to water-skis on fire, subsequent encounter #icd10
— EveryICD10 (@EveryICD10) September 28, 2015
T82.535S Leakage of umbrella device, sequela #icd10
— EveryICD10 (@EveryICD10) September 16, 2015
S30.862S Insect bite (nonvenomous) of penis, sequela #icd10
— EveryICD10 (@EveryICD10) August 16, 2015
L81.2 Freckles #icd10
— EveryICD10 (@EveryICD10) August 9, 2015
And, of course, there are these for, say, MedCity News reporters up well past midnight writing stories:
Z72.821 Inadequate sleep hygiene #icd10
— EveryICD10 (@EveryICD10) October 1, 2015
Z73.2 Lack of relaxation and leisure #icd10
— EveryICD10 (@EveryICD10) September 30, 2015
But here’s the thing: ICD-10 contains 69,823 diagnosis codes. In other words, MedData missed a few. C’mon, guys. Finish the job!
UPDATE, Oct. 21: MedData Marketing Manager Sean Biehle informs us that the company experienced Twitter throttling on Sept. 30 and Oct. 2. Since MedData sent the tweets randomly through TweetJukebox, it’s taken a few weeks to figure out which ICD-10 codes it missed.
Just to be safe, MedData will soon retweet the entire code set, plus a few fake ones, Biehle said. There will be prizes for those who can spot the fakes.
Photo: MedData
