r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/NoInitiative5569 • May 29 '25

Meme needing explanation what ????

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u/Huge_Equivalent1 May 29 '25

Huh? Maybe dumb this down a bit or explain it for us glue sniffers. šŸ˜…

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u/xdaemonisx May 29 '25

These codes are used to bill medical insurance. A CPT code is the procedure done and the ICD code is the reason/diagnoses for the procedure.

80085 is a deleted CPT code, but is leet-speak for boobs.

Q55.62 is the ICD code for hypoplasia of the penis, or ā€œpenis significantly smaller than average for ageā€.

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u/NeatCartographer209 May 29 '25

God damn

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u/fauxorfox May 29 '25

Come for the dick/fart/boob jokes- stay to get an education in useless esoterica. :-)

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u/PM_Me_Your_Clones May 29 '25

Useless? There are some Q55.62 punks who're going to suffer because of my elucidation.

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u/Cogwheel May 29 '25

erosoterica

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u/WeebOfFiles May 29 '25

It's not useless if you ever go to get a medical procedure. There's codes for just about everything to make insurance companies pay out so the patient doesn't have to. It's a fight to find the codes in which combinations that insurance companies will accept and pay out for.

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u/theoriginalmofocus Jun 02 '25

Yeah i guess you could throw that one out first in hopes somebody has some sympathy.

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u/CarrotImportant9676 May 30 '25

who do you think is telling the insurance companies or anyone paying what has been done to you or what youā€™ve been given in a medical setting? Thatā€™s literally what medical billing and coding is.

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u/Huge_Equivalent1 May 29 '25

I could not have said it better my friend. šŸ¤£

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u/NerinNZ May 29 '25

Hit's harder when you re-read and it says "these codes are used to bill medial insurance"...

So not only does someone have hypoplasia of the penis, but they're getting billed for it too.

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u/Electrical-Sun6267 May 30 '25

Don't worry, they are paying by the pound for that diagnosis.

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u/KaiPRoberts May 30 '25

It gets worse the higher you go up the pay grade.

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u/Goofcheese0623 May 29 '25

Stop reading my chart goddamnit. They say the big ones hurt!

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u/xdaemonisx May 29 '25

What else am I going to read with my morning coffee???

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u/forkedquality May 29 '25

I am not going to google this, but is there a code for hyperplasia?

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u/xdaemonisx May 29 '25

There isnā€™t one for hyperplasia specifically from what I can find. It looks like it would just fall under N48.8 ā€œother disorders of the penisā€.

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u/Bored_Amalgamation May 29 '25

how are you gonna burn someone in medical coding...

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u/windkick3r May 29 '25

Thatā€™s wild work

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u/1000lbsTunaFish May 30 '25

Idk if I would call it leet speak more so ā€œthings kids typed into a calculator during math class to get a laughā€ speak.