St. Paul Computer Center, Inc. has extensive hospital, healthcare/medical information systems and IT experience. St. Paul has been providing services to healthcare related concerns for over 35 years. St. Paul Computer Center has designed, tested and written the systems that the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission uses to collect case mix data and to set hospital rates in Maryland for: Inpatient, Psychiatric, Outpatient and Chronic Care institutions.

St. Paul Computer Center also has experience with the management of large scale healthcare IT processing systems. We have designed and implemented the following systems for hospitals, state regulatory agencies and consulting firms in Maryland, New Jersey, New York and other states:

FEDERAL DRG Grouping - using the official HCFA Grouper programs
Downcoding/Upcoding DRG Grouper systems
Ver 25 Federal MS (Severity Adjusted DRGs)

Enhanced APG Grouping
Outpatient data grouping using the NEW outpatient EAPG Grouper from 3M

APR DRG – All Payer Refined - Severity Adjusted DRG Grouping
Inpatient data grouping using APR Severity Adjustment Classifications from 3M
Minor, Moderate, Major, Extreme severity measurement of cases

CMG's for the Canadian Government

UB and HCFA Electronic Claim Processing for all payers

Database files stored (available for purchase) at St. Paul:
Over 25 years of Maryland Hospital Inpatient case mix data
Over 15 years of Maryland Hospital Ambulatory Surgery case mix data
10 years of Maryland Hospital Ambulatory Care case mix data
NEW Maryland Hospital Outpatient case mix data

Physician Peer Profile System with Charge per Case Capability

Measures Physician performance vs. Dynamic Peer Groups
Physician performance is measured using the APR Severity Adjustment and Risk of Mortality Classifications from 3M

Web Based Hospital Market Share Systems - Inpatient and Outpatient Data
Visual Basic system uses SQL server containing All Maryland
Inpatient/Outpatient discharge case mix data for 5 years

SnapShot Maryland Inpatient Data Analyzer
Analyze HSCRC inpatient quarterly data files
Built-in APR and FEDERAL DRG groupers – Quality control indexes
Case Mix Index for Inpatient data
Measures your hospital case mix data performance vs. Dynamically Generated Peer Groups
Standard reports allow you to evaluate your data submissions and produce CMI Indexes
8/31 Cost Center Analyses