NANO AIR-DRG
NANO AUTOMATED INTERNATIONAL REFINED – DISEASE RELATED GROUPER
Grouping that does not wait for perfect coding
NANO AIR-DRG is an Automated International Refined – Disease Related Grouper, built for the position most health systems are actually in: more episodes needing classification than there is coding capacity to code them.
WHERE IT SITS ALONGSIDE NANO DRG
NANO DRG is the AR-DRG grouper, IHACPA-certified through V12.0 — it produces the official classification, the one a regulator will accept. NANO AIR-DRG is the International Refined grouper you reach for when the record is not fully coded yet: it carries its own procedural code set, and ICD coding is an optional input rather than a precondition.
Use the automated grouper to see the episode early. Use the certified grouper when the number has to stand up.
Key Features
Its own procedural code set
AIR-DRG carries a procedural code set developed in-house, alongside ICD and ACHI codes. That is precisely what lets it group an episode without depending on one national coding standard having been fully applied first.
ICD coding optional, not assumed
ML, CM, AM, MS and the other ICD variants are optional inputs rather than prerequisites. Where clinical coding capacity is still being built — as it is across much of the region — that is the difference between grouping the episodes you have and waiting for the ones you wish you had.
Benefits of NANO AIR-DRG
Coding time, returned
Cuts the time spent on diagnosis and coding tasks, so scarce coding capacity goes to the episodes where a human actually changes the answer.
A smaller audit surface
Consistent coding and documentation leave less to explain: fewer errors to chase, and a clearer line from the record to the classification it produced.
Kept current
Regular updates track changes in classification and regulation, so the grouper does not quietly drift away from the rules it is being measured against.
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Post-pay to pre-pay
Paying after the fact is giving way to adjudicating before it. Grouping an episode before the claim is settled is what makes pre-pay adjudication possible — and it is where the payment delay disappears rather than being managed.
See it on your own episodes
Bring a sample of episodes — coded, partly coded, or not coded at all — and we will group them with you, then show you what the certified grouper makes of the same set.
