Hi all,
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Has this been voted/agreed on, that DRG data now move to the cost table? It appears to have been documented here here and here but in my current vocab (20161218) DRG codes are associated with the observation domain (select distinct domain_id from concept where vocabulary_id = ‘DRG’). Is the idea now the cost table will be the only place where a DRG code is associated with a visit?
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My use case includes MS-DRG (vocabulary_id=‘DRG’), MS-DRG-MDC (vocabulary_id=‘MDC’), and APR-DRG (with no associated vocabulary_id in the vocabulary table that I can see) records. For the meantime I plan to move MS-DRG-MDC and APR-DRG records to the observation table, but it seems peculiar to put some DRG-related codes in the cost table and others in observation. Can you recommend a best course of action or point out what I’m misunderstanding?
Thanks,
Jamie