Subsequent encounter means you’re seeing the doctor again for the same problem. So if you got sucked into a jet engine and lived somehow you’d probably be seeing the doctor a bunch of times, and the second doctor visit and all later visits would be encoded as “subsequent encounter”
I love weird icd 10 codes, my favorite is V91.07, burn due to water-skis on fire. Like has that ever actually happened? If so please post link, I must know.
I’ve never heard of urgent care requiring referral from a pcp, that wouldn’t make any sense as the whole point of urgent care is being seen more urgently than your primary physician can accommodate. And seeing people who don’t have a primary physician and keeping them out of the ed if not necessary. I would ask your insurance for that policy in writing, that can’t be right. And if it is it should be reported to that state insurance commission because that’s totally asinine. I mean never underestimate the dumbness of insurance companies but I think something might be being lost in translation here.
This is mildly infuriating, I can give you a little more context though if you’re interested. I don’t know exactly about contracts between insurance companies and CVS so I can’t speak to that definitely. Probably something related to how much insurance is willing to pay minute clinic for such a short visit, and what things are feasible to address in such a short visit (hence CVS only allowing certain complaints).
I think this is something to do with the concept of “uncomplicated” vs “complicated” uti. Complicated utis are when there’s an increased danger of serious complications from a uti or increased likelihood of failing a typical antibiotic therapy. Utis in men are much much rarer than women, and are considered to be an automatic “complicated” uti by many. The greater length of the urethra in men helps prevent bacteria from being able to travel up to the bladder, whereas in women the short distance allows for this to happen much more frequently. So when a male has a UTI there is a much greater chance there will be complicating factors like prostate issues, structural problems, kidney stones, kidney infection, catheter use, atypical bacteria, etc. If you look more into their info on utis, they also state if they suspect any of those things, even in women, they won’t treat it and will just refer you to someone else, probably the Ed or a real urgent care clinic. Since the odds of that are much greater in men, they probably aren’t allowed to have longer appointments in minute clinic based on what insurance will pay for what they’re providing, they just decided to not see that at all in minute clinic. Looks like they do see men for sexually transmitted infections though, which are actually the most common cause of utis in young men, so if that’s a concern looks like they would be able to see people for that.
But I totally agree with you, fuck insurance companies in general.
Yes there is. Scroll to the bottom of mander.xyz and you’ll see a link for “instances.” This will show you both who we’re federated with and if any instances have been blocked. I don’t think any are blocked at the moment. If mander were to defederate from an instance you would not be able to make posts there with your mander account. You’d have to make an account with that instance or a different instance that does federate with them. So I can post to beehaw from this account, but not if I had an account on the lemmy.world instance since beehaw defederated them. I personally hope that an export or sync subscriptions feature will eventually be made to make it easy to get new accounts up to speed in case there’s a defederation event.
Edit: oh and one stipulation, if a instance defederated us, but we didn’t defederate them, you could still make posts to it (and it wouldn’t show up in our block list), but this wouldn’t get sent to the “real” thread and would only be visible to other people on mander. We also would no longer get new posts or comments on those. So like right after beehaw defederated from lemmy.world there was for a brief time some ghost comments that only people from lemmy.world could see.
Also if we did defederate from an instance, and a person from that instance posted to a different instance that we did federate with, you still wouldn’t be able to see their comments from your mander account. Basically defederation is hitting block for everyone on this instance to everyone and every post on that instance. If I’m wrong in any of this please correct me, I’m new on this too. But basically defederation is messy so probably best reserved for extraordinary circumstances.
Rip my heart out, geeze. Alright, I’ll go with metroid 6 just since the development of metroid prime 4 has been so rocky. I do appreciate that when Nintendo sees a game isn’t working they’ll scrap it and go back to square one and try and make it good though, rather then just releasing something subpar. While usually at least. On the other hand who knows when metroid 6 will come out? Anywhere from 2-15 years is the range apparently.
But we can’t go NSFW! It’s not the Jedi way!
The material is also a little rough in terms of how easy it would be to adapt into a show I think. It’s not like the expanse or something very plot heavy and tight where you can pretty much just turn the novels into a script and it’ll go at least decently well. So I’m skeptical because it’s going to need a lot of skilled work to make the story function well as a TV show. D&d have not shown that the adaptation part is their strong suit though. Definitely a wait and see for me before watching.
Yeah, sometimes you’re just innocently watching an anime and you’re like, oh no, this just went all facist imperialist Japan didn’t it. Lookin at you attack on titan.
Wait I’m lost, I did some calculus with my girl and now I can’t tell if she’s a wave or a particle
Appreciate the funny post, but for anyone reading too much into this it’s misleading at best (also just barely passing at 60% only correct). It’s referencing a portion of the test with multiple choice questions. So that’s relatively easy for a language model, since it can predict an answer from a focused question. Please don’t ask chat gpt individualized questions about your health. It does decent for giving out some general information about medical topics, but you’d be better off at going to a reputable site like mayo clinic, Cleveland clinic, or all the resources at national library of medicine who maintain free very nice medical knowledge databases on tons of topics. It’s where chat gpt is probably scraping it’s answers from anyways, and you won’t have to worry about it making up nonsense that looks real and inserting it into the answer.
And if chat gpt comes up with sources in an answer, look them up yourself no matter how convincing they seem on their face. I’ve seen it invent doi numbers that don’t exist and all sorts of weird stuff.
Well that’s enough internet for today. Geeze. So glad these people are being tracked down so they can be brought to justice.
On the instances where hot is working, I think it does work pretty nicely for this. Hopefully it’ll be up and working everywhere very soon with the next update. When I’m on an account with an instance where it’s not working, I tend to switch between top-day and new. Going into individual communities as well you can easily see what was popular.
Nice, I like the premise, gives me some Lovecraft vibes
I think as an end user of a platform like reddit, it’s easy to just want to browse a site and look at some interesting content when you have a few minutes downtime and not think much of it. The vast majority of people on the site aren’t even really contributing to content in any way. I barely ever did until hearing about the fedverse.
What got me to care and take the effort to start up here wasn’t even really the recent reddit move specifically, like sure this was a crappy thing to do on their part and they’ve done a lot of bad stuff before too. But it was seeing all these social media platforms and web services in general go one after the other becoming worse and worse for the users and ever more invasive. I think it’s just clear now that a centralized social media isn’t sustainable and going to work, and will always have that end result.
What’s so appealing about the fedverse is I think it’s a model for how these problems can be avoided and services can still go forward. I think the best we can do is be active on the fedverse, make it an appealing place to be by contributing, with programming skills if we have them or fresh content if we don’t, and continue to point out how these big web companies continue to fail us.
Archive links get rid of the paywall but it doesn’t play nice with some dns settings apparently. Here is the actual link but it does have the paywall: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/19/business/gop-disinformation-researchers-2024-election.html:
No that was super funny. Crashing the UK economy seemingly overnight all in a bid to save the richest people in the country a few bucks? Now that’s not funny
Thanks for the prompt response! I think there’s some really cool communities here and just wanted to make sure people could find them.
Yes, it’s a medical emergency that can be very dangerous or even deadly. It can lead to seizures or a devestating condition called osmotic demyelination syndrome, which can cause a “locked in syndrome” or total body paralysis. There are certain medications that can make it more likely to happen. Severe psychiatric conditions make it more likely. It tends to happen pretty frequently to people with alcoholism too. It’s pretty rare for it to happen to people without risk factors for it because your kidneys are pretty good at keeping everything balanced even if you’re drinking a decent amount of water. Though one infamous example of that is the wee for a wii radio contest where people deliberately drank tons of water and were not allowed to pee to try and win a Nintendo wii. I believe someone died from the contest, and the organizers hadn’t realized how dangerous this was. In short, drink water when you’re thirsty, and pee when you need to pee.
Lucille: How’s my son? Doctor: He’s going to be all right. Lindsay Funke: Finally some good news from this guy. Doctor: That’s a great attitude. I got to tell you, if I was getting this news, I don’t know that I’d take it this well. Lucille: But you said he was all right. Doctor: Yes, he’s lost his left hand. So he’s going to be “all right.” Lucille: [Jumping on the doctor] You son of a bitch! I hate this doctor!
My favorite running gag, love the literal doctor