You have been following what? 
I feel like a turkey now.
Not sure what you mean. In the claims world, a lot of things which are the same event are recorded through different records. For example, in Procedure records for drug administration - #13 by jenniferduryea Jennifer explains in detail how hospital-administered drugs are coded as combination of several codes.
The splitting of a code happens rarely, and usually only for those codes which are deemed truly combinations of several things. Not sure what the analyst would lose. Do you have a use case?