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The terms The Johns Hopkins ACG^® System, ACG^®, ADG^®, Adjusted Clinical Groups^® are registered trademarks of The Johns Hopkins University and may not be used without the prior express written consent of Johns Hopkins University or any of its related entities or affiliates.

The following are output produced by the ACG System.

• Diagnoses Markers: Aggregated Diagnosis Groups (ADGs), Resource Utilization Bands (RUBs) & Expanded Diagnosis Clusters (EDCs).
• Special Population Markers: Chronic Condition Count, Hospital Dominant Morbidity Types, Frailty Conditions, Compassionate Care Allowances (CAL-SSa), Pregnant, Delivered, Pregnancy without Delivery & Low Birth Weight (less than 2500 Grams)
• Pharmacy-based Markers: Rx-Defined Morbidity Groups (Rx-MGs) & Active Ingredient Count
• Diagnosis+Pharmacy-based Markers: Condition Markers & Pharmacy Adherence.
• Utilization and Resource Use Markers: All Cause Inpatient Hospitalization Count, Inpatient Hospitalization Count, Inpatient Hospitalization Days, Unplanned Inpatient Hospitalization Count, Readmission 30 Day Count, Unplanned Readmission 30 Day Count, Emergency Visit Count, Outpatient Visit Count, Dialysis Service Marker, Nursing Service Marker, Major Procedure Marker, Cancer Treatment Marker, Mechanical Ventilation Marker, Psychotherapy Service Marker, & Resource Bands.
• Coordination: Management Visit Count, majority Source of Care (MSOC), Unique Provider Count, Specialty Count, Generalist Seen, Risk of Poor Coordination, Care Density.
• Risk Models: Local Age-Gender Concurrent Risk, ACG Concurrent Risk, Concurrent Risk (Regression-based), Predicted Total/Pharmacy Cost Risk, Rank Probability High Total/Pharmacy Cost, Reference Probability High Total/Pharmacy Cost, Probability of Unexpected Pharmacy Cost/High Risk Unexpected Pharmacy Cost, Probability of Persistent High User, Predictive Models for Hospitalization including: Probability IP Hospitalization, Probability IP Hospitalization Six Months, Probability ICU Hospitalization, Probability Injury Hospitalization, Probability Extended Hospitalization.

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