CLUSTER OF CORRELATED MEDICAL CLAIMS IN AN EPISODE TREATMENT GROUP
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Abstract
A computer-implemented method for profiling medical claims to assist health care managers in determining the cost-efficiency and service quality of health care providers. The method allows an objective means for measuring and quantifying health care services. An episode treatment group (ETG) is a patient classification unit, which defines groups that are clinically homogenous (similar cause of illness and treatment) and statistically stable. The ETG grouper methodology uses service or segment-level claim data as input data and assigns each service to the appropriate episode. The program identifies concurrent and recurrent episodes, flags records, creates new groupings, shifts groupings for changed conditions, selects the most recent claims, resets windows, makes a determination if the provider is an independent lab and continues to collect information until an absence of treatment is detected.
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3. A computer-implemented process for profiling medical claim data including:
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(a) storing a plurality of episode treatment groups, wherein each episode treatment group is associated with one or more diagnosis codes or treatment codes and has an associated dynamic time window;
(b) reading medical claim data records associated with one or more patients into a computer memory;
(c) validating each of the medical claim data records for at least one of a diagnosis code and a treatment code;
(d) reading at least one pre-defined relation between the at least one of the diagnosis code and the treatment code and one or more of the stored episode treatment groups; and
(e) grouping the validated medical claim data records to at least one of the plurality of episode treatment groups based on the pre-defined relationship and the dynamic time window associated with each episode treatment group, each of the at least one of a plurality of episode treatment groups further comprising one anchor record and at least one data record linked thereto, the at least one data records being selected from the group consisting of ancillary records, facility records and prescription drug records. - View Dependent Claims (4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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