Powerful and economical applications can be purchased to supplement your annual subscription. These apps provide further depth in reporting and functionality. Each app has been designed by subject matter experts and is offered for specialized professional interests:
Ambulatory Surgery Center Profiler
A free-standing application focused on Ambulatory Surgery Centers (ASC). This app uses its own search specific to ASC's with access to our own in-house collected profile data for ASC's including name, location, phone number and website alongside Medicare ASC claims and quality data.
Clinical Cost Analyzer
The regular Inpatient report summarizes Medicare charges and costs by medical service and base MS-DRG. This premium report details the same statistics for routine services, special services, and key departments. Comparative data are also provided.
ICD Diagnoses and Procedures
The regular Inpatient report offers Medicare IPPS utilization statistics by medical service and MS-DRG. This app offers the same statistics by diagnosis or procedure code (ICD-9-CM). Top codes are reported and others can be looked up.
Insurance Transparency
Commercial insurance plans are required to routinely report the contractual rates they pay to individual hospitals for each MS-DRG. This app summarizes and reports such pricing information along with comparative analytical information.
IPPS Dashboard
The Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) determines hospital payment on numerous factors. This app details both the base DRG payment and its adjustments (e.g. disproportionate share, value based purchasing, and indirect medical education).
Information is continually updated as new data become available.
Market Analysis
This app is a tool that enables you to create interpretive, color coded maps based on Medicare patient origin data. You can display statistics for a single hospital, for a group of hospitals, or for a geographic area. Statistics also appear in accompanying tables.
Information is continually updated as new data become available.
MS-DRG Coding Indicators
Complete and accurate medical record documentation and coding is extremely important under MS-DRG based prospective payment This app provides a set of management indicators and comparative data to help monitor hospital performance.
Operational Trends
The regular ahd.com based Profile summarizes financial and statistical data from a hospital's cost report. This app provides a longitudinal view of this information over the most recent five years. This enables the identification of trends and the tracking of important measurements.
Profile Compare
The Profile is AHD's most popular regular report. It summarizes key hospital statistics based on information from multiple sources. This app lists these statistics alongside national averages and averages computed for lists of hospitals that you create.
Information is continually updated as new data become available.
Provider Analysis
This app summarizes physicians who attended more than 10 Medicare patients during a recent twelve month period. It includes utilization statistics for each physician as well as a summary by Base MS-DRGs for a physician's patients.
System Compare
This app aggregates our most commonly requested profile and financial statistics by healthcare system enabling side-by-side comparison at the system level.
Information is continually updated as new data become available.