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The 3M Let’s Talk Webinar Series offers in-depth sessions with 3M experts about patient classification methodologies. The webinars focus on 3M methodologies and how it creates a common language for defining and measuring risk adjustment, payment, reporting and quality improvement to assist both payers and providers, clinical and financial managers.

  • Inpatient
    Inpatient

    Let’s talk: Creating a common inpatient language for value


    How can you create a common language between clinicians and managers, to enable behavioral change? Start with an approach that is categorical and clinically credible like 3M™ All Patient Refined DRGs (APR DRGs).


    During this webinar 3M experts described key features of the 3M APR DRGs, how they are commonly used by payers and providers and the impact they have on creating value.


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  • Outpatient
    Outpatient

    Let’s talk: Creating a common outpatient language for value


    How can you create a common language to enable behavior change for clinical and financial managers, and payers and providers? Start with an approach that captures the current changes in clinical practice and resources used to provide a broader, more inclusive classification of outpatient care like 3M™ Enhanced Ambulatory Patient Groups (EAPGs).


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  • Population Health
    Population Health

    Let’s talk: Creating a common language for population health


    How can you create a common language between payers and providers to understand individual health status and health care cost? Start with the 3M™ Clinical Risk Groups (CRGs), a patient classification methodology that uses inpatient and ambulatory diagnosis and procedure codes to categorize every person in a patient population to a single, clinically meaningful risk group.


    During this webinar 3M experts described key features of 3M CRGs, how they are used to manage patient care and how they have an impact on population health management.


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  • Preventables
    Preventables

    Let’s talk: Creating a common language for outcome measurement using 3M PPEs


    To measure and improve key health outcomes, approximately two dozen government agencies, payers, providers and researchers rely on the 3M™ Potentially Preventable Events methodologies. Each methodology – hospital admissions, readmissions, emergency department visits, inpatient complications and ancillary services – identifies costly services that would be unnecessary if effective care had been delivered from the outset. Each methodology includes detailed logic to exclude non-preventable events and adjust for differences in patient case mix.


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3M Methodologies: Creating a language of clarity

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3M has more than 30 years of experience developing classification, grouping and reimbursement calculation systems for inpatient, outpatient and professional settings.

Whether you or your clients want to process claims for hospital reimbursement and reporting, edit patient records in real time, or leverage patient data for improved risk stratification, 3M is the standard for innovative patient grouping and classification solutions.

3M patient classification methodologies

Methodologies for defining and measuring risk adjustment, payment, reporting and quality improvement.

Risk adjustment initiatives nationwide

Major payers in more than 30 states use 3M patient classification methodologies to pay providers and measure health care quality. 3M offers grouping and pricing software that you can use to predict and verify payment, understand quality measurement algorithms, and analyze your own data to improve performance. Click on the map to find out what initiatives are impacting you.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Solutions for patient classification methodologies

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  • 3M™ Core Grouping Software for Microsoft® Windows®-based systems

    3M Core Grouping Software delivers interactive and high-speed batch claims processing with the power of 3M’s grouping, editing and reimbursement expertise.

  • 3M™ Grouper Plus Content Services

    3M™ Grouper Plus Content Services leverages web technology to deliver up-to-date, secure access to grouping, reimbursement, editing and pay-for-outcomes classifications, and the content can be viewed from many different workflows.

  • 3M methodology content services

    3M methodology content services (3M MCS) helps you get the most out of your 3M grouper license by combining technical setup and installation with customized consulting services.

  • 3M On-demand Methodology Training

    With 3M On-demand Methodology Training, your staff can now access the high quality introductory videos, self-paced learning modules and supplemental reference materials that can help them quickly come up to speed on their new 3M technology, driving utilization, efficiency and growth.

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