Jesse:Jesse_V wrote:Have you completed WUs with the passkey? If you haven't, then the servers have no record of you returning results with that information.
To get bonus points, you'll have to complete ten WUs with the passkey and then maintain an 80% successful return rate (no errors, before the deadline, etc).
Yes, I was afraid it was something like that. No telling how many QRB points I've lost because I wasn't using a passkey. Oh well, live and learn.
I hope all is going well with your studies at school. At my advanced age, (I'll be 58 in a few months), I have decided to go "back to school" (I feel like Rodney Dangerfield in that movie ... Ha! Ha!) and study medical billing and coding. It's not the same as being a doctor, but I'll be around doctors and healthcare practitioners, so that will be interesting. Right now I'm taking an 80-hour "accelerated" class designed to familiarize students with the knowledge they'll need in order to take (and pass) the certification exam. Amazingly, after three exams, I have a 92 average. For a "senior citizen" like me, that is an accomplishment!
My long term goal is to wind up billing and coding in a hospital. I would love to code a snakebite victim. I already know the ICD-9-CM, (i.e. International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision - Clinical Modification), code for a venomous snakebite. It falls under category 989, (i.e. "Toxic effect of other substances, chiefly nonmedicinal as to source") and subcategory 989.5 - Venom - Bites of venomous snakes, lizards, and spiders. I was nearly bitten by a venomous snake, a cottonmouth water moccasin, when I was 13 years old, so I have a certain fascination with coding a snakebite victim.
I imagine you didn't have to worry much about poisonous snakes up there in icebox Alaska. Your greatest peril up there was probably running into an occasional angry momma grizzly bear!
