Dear Jussi,

I hope you are doing well. Is it possible to conduct skype call next week about the questions mentioned in your email?

With best regards,

Keti

Hello!

In the new definition tables from NCC/Martti but there were some technical errors (see my previous mail).

We are waiting for a new set of tables.

Other questions at this stage:

1. What would be for you a good logic version-ID of this grouper? Is GEO2018PR1 or GEO2019PR1 better? Standard version ID is: ++<’PR’ for Production versions>+. Technically we need to select one equally for all the products using the same logic version.

2. What would be for you a good default value used in VisualDRG for cost of DRG point (GEL / point)? Some technical default is required and this can be changed in VisualDRG by yourself. We have now used technical placeholder value 200 GEL / point, which results in (now we have a copy of Latvian weights as agreed on, which doesn’t match 1:1 with Georgian DRG groups, also this can be updated later) for example for hip-surgery (ICD=S324 and NCSP=NEJ50) that would result in DRG 211N which has weight 1,6514 in Latvian weight table: 1,6514  x 200 = 330,28 GEL, which is quite low,  as calculated DRG revenue in VisualDRG. Having good default values is recommended but not compulsory. Normally weight 1,0 should reflect average cost of all ward encounters based on some reference data set. Technically, this is not a requirement.

Best regards from snowy (-5 C) Helsinki,

Jussi