The St. Paul Group has extensive experience in the processing of hospital systems, medical information systems and “secure” IT processing systems. Our team has provided services to healthcare related concerns for over 40 years. St. Paul has designed, tested and written all of the data collection systems that the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission uses to process case mix data and to set hospital rates for Inpatient, Psychiatric, Outpatient and Chronic Care cases and admissions.

St. Paul is well-versed in hospital case mix statistical analysis, reporting and intimate with developing and processing of most patient grouping systems (FEDERAL, MS, APR, PPC, PPR and APG).

Major data sets produced and edited by St. Paul include:

• Maryland Acute Care General Hospitals
• Inpatient data set - this data set contains approximately 760,000 discharges per year
• Maryland Chronic Care Hospitals
• Chronic Care data set - this data set contains approximately 3,500 discharges per year
• Maryland Private Psychiatric Hospitals
• Psychiatric data set - this data set contains approximately 9,500 discharges per year
• Maryland Acute Care General Hospitals
• Outpatient data set - this data set contains data on approximately 6,000,000 cases per year

St. Paul holds licenses for the 3M APR, APG, and Federal CMS DRG Groupers. Using our experience with large scale healthcare data processing systems management, St. Paul has designed and implemented the following systems for hospitals and consulting firms in Maryland, New Jersey, and New York:

• Secure Downloading and Uploading of Data
• Creation of DBase, SAS, and Access database files, and Excel spreadsheets
• Hospital/Medical Application Systems
• Charge per Case Systems/Case mix systems (APR and APG based systems)
• DRG and Statistical Reporting Systems
• Hospital Market Share Systems
• Physician Peer Profile (P3) System
• PPS Impact Systems
• Snapshot Hospital based HSCRC APR/CMI data analyzer

The St. Paul Group processes work for over (300) remote clients on personal computers, virtual computers and networked systems. St. Paul manages and operates this system 24 hours per day 7 days a week.

St. Paul has long term working relationships with Maryland Hospitals, Consulting Firms, the Maryland HSCRC, MHCC, and DHMH.