Lyme Patients Denied Care & Insurance Coverage – no Codes

February 10, 2017

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/global-network-on-institutional-discrimination-lyme-disease-patients-denied-care-and-insurance-coverage-because-of-missing-diagnostic-codes-300403749.html

The World Health Organization (WHO) has over 68,000 diagnostic codes for illnesses, but Lyme symptoms aren’t listed, making Lyme patients invisible.

But, Jenna Luche-Thayer, Director of the Global Network on Institutional Discrimination, is hoping to change all that.  Thayer has requested a meeting with the WHO to modernize the Lyme Disease diagnostic codes.

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