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Clinical Coding Services Health Information Systems

Classification and Grouping Solutions

Provide patient classification schemes and diagnosis related grouping (DRG) solutions to classify patients in the appropriate categories for treatment, data analysis, and reimbursement purposes. We support inpatient, ambulatory, and population management groupers that have incorporated severity- and risk-adjusted methodologies specifically designed for international use. We also provide solutions in different codes sets, such as ICD-10, ICD-9-CM, and country-specific diagnosis and procedure sets.

Core Grouping Software

3M Core Grouping Software is a computerized application that sets a new standard for efficiently and effectively grouping and editing data for today’s healthcare providers, insurance companies, managed care companies, claims review companies, government agencies, and others.

The software assigns inpatient records to International Refined Diagnosis Related Groups (IR-DRGs), evaluates the accuracy and completeness of clinical data and identifies potential errors. Additionally, 3M Core Grouping Software supports the ambulatory IR-DRG classification system. The software evaluates the accuracy and completeness of clinical data, identifies potential errors and flags those errors.

3M Core Grouping can help you:

  • Assign IR-DRGs for both inpatient and ambulatory data
  • Review coding accuracy
  • Monitor and define the statistics file
  • Manage coding errors
  • Evaluate the coded patient record interactively
  • Assign severity of illness and risk of mortality levels to your inpatients
  • Assign medical intensity levels to your ambulatory patients

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