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HIPPS codes?

I’ve run into what I think are HIPPS codes in CMS/Medicare files.
I looked around in Athena and it doesn’t seem to be a vocabulary included there.

Have any of you heard of them, and would you have thoughts about perhaps mapping to another vocabulary that is available in the OHDSI vocabularies?

-Chris

It’s right there: https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Medicare-Fee-for-Service-Payment/ProspMedicareFeeSvcPmtGen/HIPPSCodes. It’s a payment system for nursing homes etc. providing levels of care load.

For observational data, this has limited value, because that is about patient-centric things: conditions, treatments, outcomes, visits.

Got a use case?

We had a short discussion in the Vocab WG thread and @stephanieshong found them in her data, too. Maybe she has determined (or ruled out) a proper use case.

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Thanks Mik and Christian,
It’s the exact same use-case. I just hadn’t had a chance to ask her yet.

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