The DDI Grouper

Treatment Grouping and Risk Analysis

The DDI Grouper

Introducing our ground-breaking technology for Episode Grouping: The DDI Grouper.

Analyzing, grouping and forecasting complex healthcare insurance claim data is difficult – especially when there are thousands of medical codes to evaluate. Our AI solution, the DDI Grouper and Risk technology, makes things simpler.

Administrative data health claims and demographic data are used by public and private entities to evaluate the health state, resource utilization, and current and future risk associated with individuals and populations. To do so, organized systems for categorizing conditions, procedures and drugs are required. Typically, the following fields from medical and pharmacy claims are used for administrative data analysis:

Claims Field	Coding System	Number of Codes	Purpose
Diagnosis Code	ICD10	70,000+	Classifies an individual’s diseases/conditions
Procedure Code	CPT	10,000+	Describes and classifies procedures provided to an individual
Drug Code	NDC	100,000+	Identifies drug(s) provided to an individual

As can be seen, the number of individual codes makes analysis of the health status and resource use for populations or individuals unmanageable if individual codes are used as input variables.

What are Episode Groupers?

To provide information a form suitable for analyzing the health status, resource utilization, and risk characteristics of a group as a basis for making financial, public health, and resource allocation decisions, categorization (“grouping”) of individual codes into rational groups is necessary. For example: There are more than one hundred ICD10 codes for atherosclerosis; these codes can be categorized into five (rather than one hundred-plus) categories (groups). Similar strategies can be implemented for procedure and drug codes.

The DDI Grouper (DDIG)

There are a number of grouper technologies in the marketplace; these have variously been developed by private and public entities. Some are marketed commercially. To address the shortcomings of most of these groupers, DDI has developed a grouping technology that meets these key requirements:

The grouper is Place of Service agnostic. That is, claims data from all sites of care is imported for grouping;
Individual diagnosis codes are grouped into DDIG condition groups (“DDIGs”) that are clinically logical and understandable to non-expert users;
Procedures and drugs are associated with DDIGs for each individual, thus providing a realistic view of the costs and resources required to manage a condition; and,
Initial grouping is performed at the individual level; the individual data can be aggregated to provide a population view.

Risk Forecasting

Clinical Risk:

The probability of hospitalization for an individual is just one example of risk forecasting used by providers and other care managers to target services to the most at-risk members of a group.

Financial Risk:

Forecasting is used by payors to determine provider payment, by underwriters to set insurance premiums, and by employers to budget for employees’ health costs.

Risk forecasting is most accurate when it considers an individual’s:

Age and gender
Health status
History of important procedures; and
Prescribed drug use

Risk forecasting is best based on input from a grouper to avoid the problem of analyzing too many raw input variables (codes).

DDI Risk Forecasting (DDIR)

DDIR is a risk analysis and risk forecasting AI and Big Data technology. It has been developed using statistical methods and machine learning models with the DDIG grouping methodology as a foundation.

Through the DDIR system, a clinical and demographic risk profile is generated using age, gender and mix of DDIRs for a particular patient. This profile provides impact of current and future health risk on health care costs and health status.

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The DDI Grouper

The DDI Grouper

Risk Forecasting

DDI Risk Forecasting (DDIR)

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