IODINE PRE-RELEASE TERMS
IODINE PARTNER TEMPLATES
IODINE APR-DRG ADD-ON (“SOFTWARE”)
IODINE AWAREUM (“SOFTWARE”)
COGNITIVEML ENGINE (“SOFTWARE”)
IODINE CONCURRENT (“SOFTWARE”)
IODINE FORECAST (“SOFTWARE”)
IODINE INTELLIGENCE (“SOFTWARE”)
IODINE INTERACT (“SOFTWARE”)
IODINE INTROSPECT (“SOFTWARE”)
IODINE RETROSPECT (“SOFTWARE”)
IODINE GROUPER/ENCODER (“SOFTWARE”)
IODINE PRE-RELEASE TERMS
If Iodine has designated the Software, Service or any feature of the Software or Service as “beta, limited availability, limited release, early access, preview, prototype, pilot” or with a similar designation (collectively referred to as “Pre-Release”), then Customer’s use of the Pre-Release Software, Service or Feature is subject to the Pre-Release Terms found at: https://iodinesoftware.com/legal/prereleaseterms/.
IODINE PARTNER TEMPLATES
As stated in the Agreement, Customer, and neither Iodine nor Iodine Partner, will be responsible for Customer’s use of the Partner Templates, including its utilization, accuracy, maintenance, and compliance with applicable law. Customer may not use features in the Software to modify, update, configure, remove, or incorporate additional content to the Partner Templates to be delivered through the Software. The Partner Templates are standard and any modification, change, removal or addition requires the express written consent of both Iodine and Iodine Partner. If requested by the Customer and agreed upon by Iodine and Iodine Partner, Iodine will provide assistance for such work and determine if changes will be made to Partner Templates via an additional Amendment or Order Form.
Each party shall retain rights and ownership of all intellectual property, including without limitation all know-how, trade-secrets, copyrights, and patentable inventions relating thereto, including materials, notes, designs, technical data, ideas, know-how, research, reports, documentation and other information related thereto (“Intellectual Property”), that was developed or purchased prior to Customer’s purchase of the Partner Templates. The Iodine Partner shall retain ownership of all Intellectual Property made or conceived or reduced to practice or developed by Iodine Partner during the term of this Agreement.
Product Description:
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A non-exclusive, limited term license for Customer to Use the Partner Templates through the Software during the Order term in support of Customer’s internal operations
- Technical support for Customer (pursuant to the Support and Enhancement Terms of the Agreement)
- Standard ongoing Partner Templates updates and periodic maintenance
Scope of Use: The Software may be used by Customer’s nurses, physician advisors, and support staff personas who are actively involved in the review of Partner Templates for an Authorized Facility and which shall not include third-party contract resources without prior written approval from Iodine.
IODINE APR-DRG ADD-ON (“SOFTWARE”)
Product Description:
- Encoder that supports both MS-DRG and APR-DRG grouping to calculate varying types of DRGs, such as Working and Possible
- Financial and quality outcome tracking for APR-based payers
- Self-service custom report building across a variety of APR-related fields
Use of the Iodine APR-DRG Add-On is subject to the following additional terms:
Customer understands and acknowledges that the license to use APR-DRG and APR-DRG documentation (“3M Documentation”) is non exclusive and non-assignable. Use of APR-DRG is solely for Customer’s internal use in compliance with the Agreement. In no event shall Customer (i) use the APR-DRG to process data for the benefit of any entity other than Customer and the hospitals as indicated on the Order, (ii) make the APR-DRG accessible to any unaffiliated entity, (iii) make any modifications, derivative works of, disassembling or otherwise reverse engineer the APR-DRG, or (iv) make copies of the APR-DRG, except for archival and backup purposes.
APR-DRG and 3M Documentation shall be treated by Customer as Iodine Confidential Information in accordance with the Agreement. 3M Health Information Systems, Inc. shall have no liability for Customer’s use of the APR-DRG or the 3M Documentation.
The APR-DRG module may be terminated from the Agreement in the event Customer violates the terms of this Attachment and such violation is not cured following notice of breach as described in the Agreement. Nothing in this Attachment modifies Customer’s obligations or the restrictions contained in the Agreement with respect to any other Software.
IODINE AWAREUM
IODINE AWAREUM
Iodine AwareUM provides a number of functionalities as listed below to support concurrent utilization review integrity.
- Utilization Review (“UR”) Nurse Environment: Intelligent and adaptive prioritization and efficiency workflow for UR Nurses, using a proprietary AwareUM algorithm
- Physician Advisor Environment: Dedicated patient list prioritization and efficiency workflow for Physician Advisors, driven by referrals from UR Nurses
- Payer Communication: Ability to send clinical information directly to Payers
- Reporting: reporting on utilization review productivity and outcome metrics
- Avoidable days tracking: ability to capture avoidable days and report on those delays by payer, attending, and delay reason
- Case communications: ability to leave internal notes, document escalation notes, and completed review notes
- Iodine AwareUM does not include medical advice of any kind and in no event shall Customer utilize AwareUM as a “device” under Section 201(h) of the Food, Drug, & Cosmetic Act. Iodine AwareUM does not include coding or billing advice of any kind. Customer and its resources are responsible for exercising their judgment and ensuring they act in a manner compliant with Customer’s policies and all applicable federal and state laws and regulations, including, but not limited to, all authorities governing the coding and submission of claims for reimbursement to Medicare, Medicaid and other government health programs.
Cloud-Based Query Management Feature:
AwareUM further provides a cloud-based query management platform that makes it easier for clinicians to review and respond to review requests from utilization management nurses and UM support staff, resulting in more accurate records and reimbursement.
The AwareUM platform creates a new process by which provider organizations can query and educate clinicians on questions pertaining to patient status. Review requestors, such as utilization management nurses and UM support staff creates a review request by customizing templates and attaching selected documentation from the patient record. Clinicians may respond to requests from a mobile device or a computer, and their responses can automatically update documentation in the patient record. All communication activity is tracked and reportable with measures displayed real-time in graphical performance dashboards and reports.
Interface Requirements
One additional interface for each site is required to add this platform onto Iodine. Iodine will fully develop this interface for the Customer facilities. Customer IT shall support this work with requirements information, approvals, and testing. The implementation will be managed by a dedicated Iodine Project Manager. The dedicated Iodine Project Manager will guide Customer through each phase of the process from interface set up to go-live.
Outbound (from Iodine) Documents: This feature posts query documents back to the electronic medical record. The query documents are filed alongside progress notes and other physician documentation and contain the provider’s response to the query as well as the full original query with supporting clinical information.
Product End User Specifications
End-User Access
- Customer providers will access this feature via mobile application or the Iodine website
- Customer’s nurses, physician advisors, and UM support staff who are actively involved in the Utilization review use cases will access this feature from the Iodine website
Single Sign-On
- Single sign-on is supported through SAML or LDAP
Supported desktop operating systems
- Windows, 7 – Current
- Mac OS X, 8 – Current
Supported mobile operating systems
- iOS, 11 – Current
- Android, 5.1 – Current
Supported browsers
- Modern browsers (support all releases within the last two years):
- Chrome
- Firefox
- Safari
- Edge
Other requirements for browsers
- JavaScript must be enabled
- Cookies must be enabled
Product Implementation
Implementation services for deployment of the Software to the designated Customer facilities identified in the Order. Implementation typically consists of the following:
Implementation project management services:
- Iodine will work closely with Customer to define the scope and specific goals for the implementation.
- Iodine will project manage the interface development work and coordination between Customer IT and Iodine.
- Iodine will configure the software for user account set-up, provider alerts, CDI and coder workflow requirements, query template library, metrics tracking, and reporting.
- Iodine will provide access to and support of online training for CDI and coding staff.
- Iodine will coordinate system testing prior to go-live.
- Iodine’s testing approach involves reviewing HL7 messages from the Customer’s test interfaces to Iodine’s test ports to verify the HL7 message structure and data fields are included. Once validated, Iodine will request for the Customer’s test interfaces to be promoted to production, sending to Iodine’s production ports. Iodine will then utilize production data to build the test translator logic. Once complete, Iodine will allow data received from both the test and production ports to flow through the test translator into Iodine’s Pre-PROD/UAT environment to complete all application configurations. Once complete, internal and external validation sessions will be held to further validate the data and configurations. Once any applicable changes are made, Iodine will then promote the test translator logic to production, and allow data received from the production ports to flow through the production translator into Iodine’s PROD environment for go-live training.
- Because Iodine utilizes production data sets for validation and configuration in the UAT/Pre-PROD environment, Iodine does not require Customer to run specific testing scripts unless test data is unavailable for a specific element that needs to be validated prior to Customer promoting interfaces to production.
- Customer agrees to use Iodine’s testing approach unless otherwise agreed by both parties in writing. Customer requests for testing requirements outside of Iodine’s standard approach will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis for impact to timeline and additional cost to Customer.
Implementation Content development services:
- Iodine will provide training to Customer for developing, incorporating, and maintaining the query template Content for use within this feature.
- If Customer utilizes their own query template Content, ongoing query template Content updates and maintenance are the responsibility of the Customer.
- Iodine will test template Content functionality prior to go-live of the Customer facility.
For purposes of this feature the following definitions shall apply
- “Content” means Query Templates and Educational Content delivered through the AwareUM suite.
- “Educational Content” means any educational content used to educate Authorized Users on clinical documentation best practices and delivered through the AwareUM suite.
- “Query” means a request submitted by UM staff to a physician to answer questions about documentation, review a case for medical necessity, etc.
- “Query Templates” means any content which comprises the ‘medical necessity query template’ which is used to create a query to send to Authorized Users through the AwareUM suite.
GenAI Summaries Feature:
AwareUM utilizes generative AI technology to analyze the medical record and create narrative summaries (“GenAI Summaries”). These summaries are designed to help Customer’s UM nurses, UM support staff, physician advisors, and other stakeholders to digest information more quickly and communicate case details more efficiently and effectively with each other and with payers. The summaries are designed to include one or more of the following examples:
- Chart Summary – Summarizes the patient’s chart, highlighting key points, data and issues from the medical record to recap why the patient is in the hospital and explain their current medical situation.
- Conditions Summary – Summarizes the patient’s conditions in a quick, digestible format.
- New Since Last Review Summary – Summarizes information that was added to the chart since the last review was conducted, helping Customer to quickly identify new and pertinent information additions.
The exact content of the summaries may change over time. Iodine reserves the right to add additional summary types, as well as sunset summary types, to the examples listed here.
1.2. Scope of Use: The Software may be used by Customer’s nurses, physician advisors, and UM support staff personas who are actively involved in the Utilization review use cases for an Authorized Facility and which shall not include third-party contract resources without prior written approval from Iodine.
COGNITIVEML ENGINE (“SOFTWARE”)
CognitiveML is the engine that drives Iodine’s innovative cognitive emulation technology. By automatically analyzing the complete patient record, including both documentation and clinical evidence, the CognitiveML Engine applies advanced predictive analytics to help support clinical documentation and coding decisions. Drawing on millions of historical patient examples and state-of-the-art machine learning techniques, accuracy levels exceed what is possible with other, more straightforward rules-based approaches. Natural language processing is of course an aspect of CognitiveML, but the interpretation of clinical data, such as lab results, and medication orders, unlocks capabilities not possible with alternative solutions that depend primarily on documentation.
Product Description
- Integration with hospital documentation and clinical data to continuously update patient medical condition predictions • Evaluation of millions of historical patient records to help drive accurate machine learning models • Automatic analysis of each patient record for identification of clinical conditions and documentation and/or coding opportunities
- Algorithms to prioritize patient censuses for more efficient utilization of hospital resources
Scope of Use: The Software may be used by Customer’s nurses, physician advisors, and CDI support staff personas who are actively involved in the CDI process for an Authorized Facility and which shall not include third-party contract resources without prior written approval from Iodine.
IODINE CONCURRENT (“SOFTWARE”)
Iodine Concurrent provides a number of functionalities as listed below to support concurrent documentation integrity. Iodine CDI SmartList (“Software”)
Iodine CDI SmartList uses a proprietary algorithm to prioritize a CDI Specialist’s patient list. By prioritizing his/her patient list, the SmartList enables the CDI Specialist to spend his/her time on the cases that are most likely to need documentation improvement.
Product Description
- Prioritizes each patient based on clinical data, patient history, payer, length of stay, and other factors
- Intelligent and adaptive prioritization based on feedback from CDI specialists, using a proprietary Iodine algorithm
- Tracking of patients with open queries
- Tracking of patients who have been reviewed
- Intelligently and automatically reprioritizing the list of patients as new information about patients is made available to Iodine
- Intelligent identification of potential documentation improvement opportunities for each patient
- Detailed data that may indicate documentation improvement opportunities
- Historical tracking of previous patient reviews by other CDI specialists
- Ability to filter the list of cases by location and other criteria
- Dashboard for viewing CDI Specialist productivity
- Historical logs of CDI Specialist activity and select patient events
- Iodine CDI Timeline (“Software”)
Iodine CDI Timeline automatically identifies possible documentation continuity and consistency issues and visualizes them in a graphical timeline. CDI specialists see a list of documentation issues and review the contents of documents and other clinical data to identify the reason for the issue and the next step to resolve it.
Product Description
- Automatic identification of patients with documentation consistency and/or continuity issues
- Graphical view of documents and clinical data over duration of patient stay to illustrate documentation issues
- Search across all documentation for Iodine condition mentions and/or custom keyword searches
- Read content of documents with relevant keywords highlighted in body of text
Iodine Labs and Vitals (“Software”)
Iodine Labs and Vitals provides CDI specialists with a view of clinical data from the patient’s visit. The view is customizable so that users can choose the type of data and the date range they would like to explore.
Product Description
- Clinical observations are visually grouped into their related panels, such as hematology and ABG
- Results outside of the reference range are highlighted in the display with a special badge
- Date range and types of observations to display is customizable based on the CDI specialist’s needs Iodine Worksheet (“Software”)
Iodine Worksheet creates a point-and-click process to track notes directly from documents and clinical information in the medical record. CDI specialists can easily pull key information into their Worksheet without the need to manually type or hand-write it. Notes in the Worksheet are available for future reviews, and the notes can be quickly copied elsewhere, such as to a query template.
Product Description
- Highlight text from documentation and take note of it with one click
- Add lab results and vital signs to notes with one click while reviewing them in the Labs & Vitals interface
- Worksheet can be expanded to be always visible and available throughout the review workflow
- Notes added to worksheet can be copied to clipboard with one click and then pasted elsewhere, for example to a query template
Iodine Spotlight (“Software”)
Iodine Spotlight highlights documentation and clinical data related to the patient’s likely diagnoses, based on data automatically identified by Iodine’s artificial intelligence technology. CDI specialists can activate the Spotlight for the patient’s possible conditions, and then see its related information called out throughout the course of their review.
Product Description
- Possible conditions are suggested automatically, based on the analysis of patient data by Iodine artificial intelligence technology
- CDI specialists choose which conditions to spotlight, based on their judgment and clinical review
- Documents with mentions related to the condition are called out on the CDI Timeline, and the specific text found is highlighted while reviewing the document
- Clinical indicators, such as lab results and vital signs, related to the condition are called out in the Labs & Vitals display Iodine Query Templates (“Software”)
Iodine SmartList Query Templates integrates the query process directly into the Iodine review workflow. CDI specialists can choose the appropriate query template and edit it with clinical indicators before sending to providers.
Product Description
- Selection of multiple templates to support different query scenarios
- Fill in template with relevant clinical indicators for the patient
- Quick copying and printing of full query text
Scope of Use: The Software may be used by Customer’s nurses, physician advisors, and CDI support staff personas who are actively involved in the CDI process for an Authorized Facility and which shall not include third-party contract resources without prior written approval from Iodine.
IODINE FORECAST (“SOFTWARE”)
The Iodine Forecast automatically predicts the expected length of stay (based on MS-DRG GMLOS) and final MS-DRG for every inpatient. This information can be interfaced to other hospital systems via HL7 or be made available for batch export to support Care Management teams and other departments that utilize expected length of stay or MS-DRGs in their daily workflow and planning.
Product Description
- Expected length of stay and final MS-DRG are automatically predicted using Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning even if there has been no CDI review
- Predictions are updated regularly as new patient data is received
- Predicted final MS-DRGs and related information (GMLOS, relative weight, DRG code description) can be interfaced via HL7 or made available for periodic flat-file transfer
Scope of Use: The Software may be used by Customer’s nurses, physician advisors, and CDI support staff personas who are actively involved in the CDI process for an Authorized Facility and which shall not include third-party contract resources without prior written approval from Iodine.
IODINE INTELLIGENCE (“SOFTWARE”)
Iodine Intelligence provides CDI specialists with additional details and support for advanced clinical decision making. Reference materials and automatically generated query content are provided to CDI specialists so that they can more efficiently make decisions about what queries to send and how to author them. This content is available within the Iodine SmartList so that CDI specialists can maintain an optimal review workflow.
Product Description
- Enhanced patient review user experience highlights conditions most likely to require CDI intervention • Embedded reference and educational materials to assist CDI specialists in evaluating more complex or infrequent conditions
- Automatically pre-selected content available for use by CDI in their query authoring process
- Client-configurable criteria can control when to prompt CDI specialists with pre-selected content or educational material based on patient data or scenarios
- Auditing and analytics tracks what has been prompted to CDI specialists and what action they took as a result
Scope of Use: The Software may be used by Customer’s nurses, physician advisors, and CDI support staff personas who are actively involved in the CDI process for an Authorized Facility and which shall not include third-party contract resources without prior written approval from Iodine.
IODINE INTERACT (“SOFTWARE”)
Iodine Interact provides a cloud-based, HIPAA-compliant, query management platform that makes it easier for clinicians to review and respond to queries from clinical documentation specialists, coders and quality staff resulting in more accurate reimbursement, public reporting, research and policy decisions.
The Iodine Interact platform creates a new process by which provider organizations can query and educate clinicians on clarifying clinical documentation. Query authors, such as clinical documentation specialists and medical coders, create queries by customizing compliant templates and attaching selected documentation from the patient record. Clinicians may respond to queries from a mobile device or a computer, and their responses automatically generate query documents in the patient record. All query activity is tracked and reportable with measures displayed real-time in graphical performance dashboards and reports.
Iodine Interact Interface Requirements
One additional interface for each site is required to add the Iodine Interact platform onto Iodine. Iodine will fully develop this interface for the Customer facilities. Customer IT shall support this work with requirements information, approvals, and testing. The implementation will be managed by a dedicated Iodine Interact Project Manager. The dedicated Iodine Interact Project Manager will guide you through each phase of the process from interface set up to go-live.
Outbound (from Iodine Interact) Documents: Iodine Interact posts query documents back to the electronic medical record. The query documents are filed alongside progress notes and other physician documentation and contain the provider’s response to the query as well as the full original query with supporting clinical information.
Iodine Interact Product End User Specifications
End-User Access
- Customer providers will access Iodine Interact via mobile application or the Iodine Interact website
- CDI staff and coders will access Iodine Interact from the Iodine Interact website
Single Sign-On
- Single sign-on is supported through SAML or LDAP
Supported desktop operating systems
- Windows, 7 – Current
- Mac OS X, 8 – Current
Supported mobile operating systems
- iOS, 11 – Current
- Android, 5.1 – Current
- Supported browsers
- Modern browsers (support all releases within the last two years):
- Chrome
- Firefox
- Safari
- Edge
- Internet Explorer 11
Other requirements for browsers
- JavaScript must be enabled
- Cookies must be enabled
Product Implementation
Implementation services for deployment of the Software to the designated Customer facilities identified in Order. Implementation consists of the following:
Implementation project management services:
- Iodine will work closely with Customer to define the scope and specific goals for the implementation
- Iodine will project manage the interface development work and coordination between Customer IT and Iodine
- Iodine will configure the software for user account set-up, provider alerts, CDI and coder workflow requirements, query template library, metrics tracking, and reporting
- Iodine will provide access to and support of online training for CDI and coding staff
- Iodine will coordinate system testing prior to go-live
- Iodine’s testing approach involves reviewing HL7 messages from the Client’s test interfaces to Iodine’s test ports to verify the HL7 message structure and data fields are included. Once validated, Iodine will request for the Client’s test interfaces to be promoted to production, sending to Iodine’s production ports. Iodine will then utilize production data to build the test translator logic. Once complete, Iodine will allow data received from both the test and production ports to flow through the test translator into Iodine’s Pre-PROD/UAT environment to complete all application configurations. Once complete, internal and external validation sessions will be held to further validate the data and configurations. Once any applicable changes are made, Iodine will then promote the test translator logic to production, and allow data received from the production ports to flow through the production translator into Iodine’s PROD environment for go-live training.
- Because Iodine utilizes production data sets for validation and configuration in the UAT/Pre-PROD environment, Iodine does not require the Client to run specific testing scripts unless test data is unavailable for a specific element that needs to be validated prior to the Client promoting interfaces to production.
- Client agrees to use Iodine’s testing approach unless otherwise agreed by both parties in writing. Customer requests for testing requirements outside of Iodine’s standard approach will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis for impact to timeline and additional cost to Customer.
- Iodine will provide ongoing support
Implementation Content development services:
- Iodine will provide training to Customer for developing, incorporating, and maintaining the query template Content for use within Iodine Interact
- The Customer may utilize their own query template Content or Customer may enter into a Work Order with Iodine Partner, AHIMA or HCPro, for query Partner Templates, updates and maintenance
- If Customer utilizes their own query template Content, ongoing query template Content updates and maintenance are the responsibility of the Customer
- Iodine will test query template Content functionality prior to go-live of the Customer facility
For purposes of Iodine Interact the following definitions shall apply
- “Content” means Query Templates and Educational Content delivered through Iodine Interact
- “Educational Content” means any educational content used to educate Authorized Users on clinical documentation best practices and delivered through Iodine Interact
- “Query Templates” means any content which comprises the ‘request for documentation clarification template’ which is used to create a query to send to Authorized Users through Iodine Interact
Scope of Use: The Software may be used by Customer’s nurses, physician advisors, and CDI support staff personas who are actively involved in the CDI process for an Authorized Facility and which shall not include third-party contract resources without prior written approval from Iodine.
IODINE INTROSPECT (“SOFTWARE”)
Introspect provides standard dashboards and reports for tracking CDI program metrics, as well as custom report building capabilities. Dashboards include both aggregated information at a summary level as well as drill-downs and exports to see the details behind the numbers.
Product Description
- Suite of pre-configured dashboards to report on CDI productivity and quality metrics
- Self-service custom report building capabilities across a variety of data fields
- Integrated data from across AwareCDI product suite available for analysis on-demand
- Explore details of underlying data with drill-downs and exports
Scope of Use: The Software may be used by Customer’s nurses, physician advisors, and CDI support staff personas who are actively involved in the CDI process for an Authorized Facility and which shall not include third-party contract resources without prior written approval from Iodine.
IODINE RETROSPECT (“SOFTWARE”)
Iodine Retrospect combines the prioritization technology of Iodine’s SmartListTM technology with an integrated CDI review workflow for post discharge records. Retrospective reviews are the last opportunity to resolve documentation and coding issues for billing and quality reporting purposes. Assigned CDI specialists or managers can review documentation and clinical data for the patient post discharge, pre-bill to support coding accuracy and reporting. Records are prioritized and tracked through final reconciliation and billing, supporting an efficient workflow that monitors for timely completion of query completion and final coding.
The Iodine Retrospect will also support a standardized workflow to complete quality audits of CDI staff. Cases that CDI Specialists have reviewed with additional documentation concerns will be detected combining the prioritization technology of Iodine’s SmartList technology with a workflow designed for timely review and identification of opportunities. This will allow CDI program leaders to isolate knowledge deficits and identify workflow and process issues to support continued CDI program growth and success.
Product Description
- Iodine SmartList automated prioritized worklist of discharged patients based on likelihood of documentation improvement opportunities
- Indicators automatically generate to identify possible coding issues, concurrent CDI missed opportunities, and patient condition information
- Likely conditions and query opportunities prompted to reviewers based on clinical criteria and documentation
- Access to reference information like history of concurrent CDI review activity, patient demographics, and activity during the patient visit
- Reporting dashboard with review, query and outcome metrics
- Filtering capabilities to review prioritized patient list based on concurrent CDI reviewer, patient location, or hospital service line
Filtering capabilities to review prioritized patient list based on concurrent CDI reviewer, patient location, or hospital service line
Scope of Use: The Software may be used by Customer’s nurses, physician advisors, and CDI support staff personas who are actively involved in the CDI process for an Authorized Facility and which shall not include third-party contract resources without prior written approval from Iodine.
IODINE GROUPER/ENCODER (“SOFTWARE”)
The Iodine Grouper/Encoder enables CDI specialists and other users to have instant access to the right codes, the right DRG, and the right coding guidelines. Users are empowered to search for diagnosis and procedure codes through coding handbooks and other industry-standard reference materials so charts are most optimally coded.
Product Description:
- Automatic grouping of ICD-10 codes into the resulting MS-DRG or APR-DRG if licensed (see APR product description for more details)
- Ability to re-sequence principal and secondary diagnosis codes
- Examine alternative DRGs for claims through Principal Diagnosis or DRG Analysis
- Reference info about MS-DRG, such as GMLOS, relative weight, and estimated reimbursement
- Display coding-related references and search by terms or codes
- Perform comprehensive editing for inpatient claims (Medical Necessity and proprietary TruCode edits) Use of Iodine Grouper/Encoder is subject to the following additional terms:
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