The 3M™ DRG Assurance Program from 3M Consulting Services is designed to improve inpatient record documentation by establishing a coordinated, systemic process utilizing a concurrent review team to strengthen communication between caregivers, physicians and the coding professionals. Complete with a unique leave-behind software component, 3M Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) System, 3M DRG Assurance can help you:

• Identify strategies to more accurately and completely capture a patient’s severity of illness and risk of mortality in clinical documentation, which typically results in a 4:1 return on investment and a 2-4% increase in Case Mix Index*.
• Improve communication and teamwork between physicians, case managers, utilization review, quality management, and health information management staff.
• Deliver extensive 3M knowledge of clinical documentation and coding in the form of new and exclusive software tools designed to automate the concurrent review process, reinforce the knowledge transfer and sustain the financial, and quality outcomes achieved by the program.

*Based upon an average of results achieved by 3M DRG Assurance Program clients.

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