diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index e2c0fae..3cb6af9 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
   <groupId>gov.cms.madie</groupId>
   <artifactId>madie-java-models</artifactId>
-  <version>0.6.68-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>0.6.69-SNAPSHOT</version>
   <name>madie-java-models</name>
   <description>Java based models for MADiE microservices</description>
   <properties>
diff --git a/src/main/java/gov/cms/madie/models/common/ModelType.java b/src/main/java/gov/cms/madie/models/common/ModelType.java
index 452cb59..79e8175 100644
--- a/src/main/java/gov/cms/madie/models/common/ModelType.java
+++ b/src/main/java/gov/cms/madie/models/common/ModelType.java
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
 
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.regex.Matcher;
+import java.util.regex.Pattern;
 
 @Getter
 public enum ModelType {
@@ -14,6 +16,7 @@ public enum ModelType {
   private String value;
   private String shortValue;
   private static final Map<String, ModelType> MODEL_TYPE_BY_VALUE = new HashMap<>();
+  private static final Pattern VERSION_PATTERN = Pattern.compile("v(\\d+(\\.\\d+)*)");
 
   static {
     for (ModelType mt : values()) {
@@ -33,6 +36,11 @@ public enum ModelType {
     this.shortValue = shortValue;
   }
 
+  public String getVersionNumber() {
+    Matcher matcher = VERSION_PATTERN.matcher(this.value);
+    return matcher.find() ? matcher.group(1) : null;
+  }
+
   @Override
   public String toString() {
     return this.getValue();
diff --git a/src/test/java/gov/cms/madie/models/common/ModelTypeTest.java b/src/test/java/gov/cms/madie/models/common/ModelTypeTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..39cc72e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/java/gov/cms/madie/models/common/ModelTypeTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+package gov.cms.madie.models.common;
+
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+
+import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.*;
+import static org.hamcrest.MatcherAssert.assertThat;
+
+public class ModelTypeTest {
+  @Test
+  void testGetModelVersionNumber() {
+    assertThat(ModelType.QDM_5_6.getVersionNumber(), is(equalTo("5.6")));
+    assertThat(ModelType.QI_CORE.getVersionNumber(), is(equalTo("4.1.1")));
+    assertThat(ModelType.QI_CORE_6_0_0.getVersionNumber(), is(equalTo("6.0.0")));
+  }
+}