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| HOW TO PICK A VERSION |
| Every year the US Federal government releases a new DRG version.
The earliest version we sell through our on-line store is Version 10, which we call "f10" for
Federal Version 10. |
| The official release is on October 1st every year and we usually release
our implementation of the algorithm by October 15th every year. |
| Please specify which version you need for any of our products.
Our software is backwardly compatible, so
if you buy the version 20 grouper, that module can handle versions 10
through 20, assuming that you have
purchased the appropriate masks file. |
| NOTE:
We have support for versions 2 through 9, but demand is low enough
that we do not clutter up our on-line store with them. You can purchase support for versions
2 through 9, but only by contacting us directly. |
| Version | Released | Retired |
Version | Released | Retired |
Version | Released | Retired |
| f29 |
Oct 1, 2011 |
Sep 30, 2012 |
f22 |
Oct 1, 2004 |
Sep 30, 2005 |
f15 |
Oct 1, 1997 |
Sep 30, 1998 |
| f28 |
Oct 1, 2010 |
Sep 30, 2011 |
f21 |
Oct 1, 2003 |
Sep 30, 2004 |
f14 |
Oct 1, 1996 |
Sep 30, 1997 |
| f27 |
Oct 1, 2009 |
Sep 30, 2010 |
f20 |
Oct 1, 2002 |
Sep 30, 2003 |
f13 |
Oct 1, 1995 |
Sep 30, 1996 |
| f26 |
Oct 1, 2008 |
Sep 30, 2009 |
f19 |
Oct 1, 2001 |
Sep 30, 2002 |
f12 |
Oct 1, 1994 |
Sep 30, 1995 |
| f25 |
Oct 1, 2007 |
Sep 30, 2008 |
f18 |
Oct 1, 2000 |
Sep 30, 2001 |
f11 |
Oct 1, 1993 |
Sep 30, 1994 |
| f24 |
Oct 1, 2006 |
Sep 30, 2007 |
f17 |
Oct 1, 1999 |
Sep 30, 2000 |
f10 |
Oct 1, 1992 |
Sep 30, 1993 |
| f23 |
Oct 1, 2005 |
Sep 30, 2006 |
f16 |
Oct 1, 1998 |
Sep 30, 1999 |
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| PRODUCTS & PRICES |
All prices are in U.S. Dollars
WE NOW USE PayPal TO ACCEPT
ON-LINE PAYMENT. WE STILL ACCEPT CHECKS AND BANK TRANSFERS AS WELL
| UNIX Programmer Tools (prices are for in-house use only; other licenses are negotiable) |
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| SUPPORTED PLATFORMS |
| In the non-Microsoft realm,
we run GNU-Linux of the following varieties in-house: Slackware,
Red Hat and Debian. We also run FreeBSD in-house. |
| In order to support non-Linux UNIXoid operating systems,
we rent time from a porting lab which allows us port our software
to many different platforms. |
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| CALLABLE GROUPER API |
| All of our UNIX progam-callable groupers share a single Application Program Interface
(API). For Perl and PHP, all the parameters are strings. For C and C++, the last two
parameters are short integers. In all cases, all the outputs are strings. |
The Inputs are as follows:
- DRG version number
- Path to the masks file or files
- Discharge disposition
- Patient age on admission
- Patient sex (1=male, 2=female)
- String of contiguous, left-justified, blank-padded ICD9cm DX codes
- String of contiguous, left-justified, blank-padded ICD9cm Surgery (aka Procedure) codes
- Length of each ICD9cm DX code
- Length of each ICD9cm Surgery (aka Procedure) code
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The Outputs are as follows:
- Grouper Return Code (what error, if any, arose during grouping)
- Major Diagnostic Category of assigned DRG
- DRG assigned to this patient encounter
- DRG version number used to assign this DRG
- The Weight of this DRG (a normalized prediction of resource consumption)
- The Geometric Mean Length-of-stay for this DRG
- PorM flag: P if this is a "procedure" or "surgery" DRG, M if a "medical" DRG
- DRG Description: the official name of this DRG
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| PERL SHARED OBJECT |
| Through the magic of SWIG, a wrapper-generator,
we are able to access our C-callable object through Perl on many platforms.
You install the shared object in the appropriate location, you 'use' our mhdrg.pm
package and voila! you can assign DRGs in a Perl script.
Thanks to the DBI package for accessing databases and Perl's many
powerful features for handling text or parsing binary data, our
module makes assigning DRGs to records in databases or in export
files rather easy.
Click here to see a sample Perl
script that calls our grouper. |
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| PHP SHARED OBJECT |
| SWIG (see above) also allows us to create a PHP
module which assigns DRGs so that you, in turn, can add DRG assignment to your
PHP applications.
Click here to see a sample PHP
document that calls our grouper. |
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| LINUX C-CALLABLE SHARED OBJECT |
| We also have a shared object that runs under most x86 Linux distributions
and can be used with C programs such as the SAS environment. |
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| C-CALLABLE OBJECT |
| Our grouper is an ANSI C program which can be compiled by almost any valid ANSI
C compiler. We have compiled our grouper under every one of our supported platforms
with little or no modification.
Click here to see a sample ANSI C
program that calls our grouper. |
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| ICL ENVIRONMENT UPGRADE |
| Our parent company, M+H Consulting,
has its very own 4th Generation Language (4GL), as part of a Rapid Application
Development (RAD) environment. That ALGOL-style, line-oriented, block-structured
language is called Interactive Computer Language, or ICL. Naturally, ICL has an
embedded grouper in it, which needs to be updated every year. Our clients who have
ICL applications and who want current grouping buy this upgrade. |
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| RESELLER LICENSE |
| If you want to embed our grouper in a product you will be selling on the market,
then you need to negotiate a custom license agreement. Please
contact us for details. |
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| MAY WE TAKE YOUR ORDER? |
| As of October, 2009, we have a shiny new on-line shopping cart. We strongly
recommend that you use it, if you can. You can use the shopping cart by clicking on the
big blue buttons above. |
| If you use the on-line shopping cart, you get
your software immediately and directly. |
| If you do not use the shopping cart, your order
will have to be filled manually, which takes time, and will be emailed to you, which
often leads to interference by spam filters and firewalls. |
| You can use the on-line
shopping cart if you have a company credit card; we use Paypal to process on-line
purchases, but Paypay does not require you to have or use a Paypal account. |
| If your company works on a purchase order basis, you may want to
fax us a purchase order to (203) 826-2214, containing the same product information as
the form below. If you would like to order on-line, but are sure that you cannot use
our on-line shopping cart, please fill in the form below and submit it. |
| (If you are reading the PDF version of this document, then please consider copying the form
and pasting it into a email or printing it out and faxing it or mailing it.) |
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| If you don't get an email acknowledgement from us within 2 business days,
there may have been some technical problem so
please let us know at
grouper@drggroupers.com. |
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