Subject: FW: NordDRG Georgian version questions
From: Ketevan Goginashvili
To: Maia maglakelidze-khomeriki <[email-masked]>; [email-masked]; Maia Khomeriki <[email-masked]>; [email-masked]<[email-masked]> <[email-masked]>; [email-masked]; [email-masked]'<[email-masked]> <[email-masked]'>; [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 08:34:00 +0000

Ketevan Goginashvili, MPH

Head of Health Policy Division

Health Care Department

Ministry of Internally displaced Persons

from  Occupied Territories,

Labor, Health and Social Affairs

144 Tsereteli Ave

Tbilisi 0119, Georgia

Tel: +995 32 251 00 38 ext 1108

Mob: 995 577717984

From: Järveläinen Jussi [mailto:[email-masked]]
Sent: 16 January, 2019 14:29
To: Ketevan Goginashvili
Cc: Serpola Pekka
Subject: NordDRG Georgian version questions

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