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3M™ Coding and Reimbursement System

Used by nearly 5,000 hospitals worldwide, this market-leading group of software products incorporates expert system technology to help coders evaluate and apply coding and grouping rules to individual patient records. The system:

  • Provides a sophisticated, easy-to-learn tool for accurate, complete, and compliant coding and grouping
  • Allows coders a way to combine professional talents and skills with powerful expert logic developed by 3M experts and clinicians
  • Helps coders quickly resolve coding problems using a robust array of coding, grouping, and reimbursement components
  • Available as a Microsoft® Windows® application or a web-based edition

The 3M™ Codefinder™ Software has been recognized as the Software Category Leader for Medical Records Coding for 2008.

KLAS
2008 Top 20 Best in KLAS Awards

System components

  • 3M Codefinder Software: Powerful software that helps you manage the complex rules and terminology of ICD-9-CM coding. What's more, the software follows all important rules, principles, and guidelines for coding.
  • 3M Clinical Analyzer Software: This intuitive software helps ensure the most accurate codes and DRG assignments have been selected. It prompts for additional, often overlooked, secondary diagnoses or treatments.
  • 3M DRGfinder™ Software: This software module provides accurate DRG assignments based on current federal regulations. (This essential element allows you to see the same codes grouped under a different grouper.)
  • 3M Reimbursement Calculation Software: This module instantly calculates reimbursement based on formulas that use the appropriate national and hospital-specific variables. It includes Medicare inpatient and outpatient formulas and also accommodates other payer groupers using the same codes.
  • 3M HCPCS/CPTfinder Software: Critical software that helps you determine the standard five-digit code for procedures and services provided for outpatient visits.

3M Coding and Reimbursement System (PDF 163 KB)

Case Study: Kettering Health Network (PDF 205 KB) reduced medical necessity write-offs from $80,000 per month to a monthly average of $10,000.

Listen to a podcast interview at AHIMA 2008 about present on admission (POA) and hospital-acquired conditions (HACs), option #4 on the playlist.

Other optional system components



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