V35 Released!

Our etail site is now live with the v35 versions of all our products.

http://www.drggroupers.net/

V35 AIX Port

Our v35 AIX port is done and validated.

V35 Windows Products Validated

Our Windows-based products passed validation. The only issue was the ever-annoying leading zeroes problem in MS-Excel. We find that importing the test database CSV always raises this issue: if imported as a CSV, leading zeroes are stripped from procedure codes which mangles those procedure codes.

V35 Linux Products Validated

The v35 Linux products, both 32-bit and 64-bit, have passed validation. On to the Windows products.

V35 Basic Validation Done

Our DRG Assignment Engine (DAE) has passed validation.

We found our bug: handling a few of the new attributes was buggy. Specifically attributes in byte 27 and above.

So now our basic v35 engine works and we are busy embedding it in all our products.

V35 Validation Hiccup

We have hit a snag validating our v35 implementation. We have a single case in the test database which does not group correctly. We are doing a deep dive into our implementation.

V35 Changes Are Modest

We have reviewed the v35 version and compared  v35 to v34 and found some modest logic changes and several new attributes for diagnoses and procedures. So we are hoping that implementing v35 will go quickly and smoothly.

Finally Found The CMS Distribution

Our attempts to get the CMS distribution on which we base our upgrade finally paid off.

For years now we found the CMS distribution on the NTIS (National Technical Information Service) web site but this year we could not find it.

Finally, today, we found the CMS distribution on the CMS web site in this file:  MS-DRG-MCE-Software-2017.zip.

So we are finally off to the races.

V35 Manual

This is where you will find the technical documentation for the v35 versions of our products: [link]