The SAS, Stata, and CSV files are offered here with uniform file names and variable names to make the DRG Weight data and DRG MDC crosswalks a bit easier to use.

Researchers calculated hospitals' risk-adjusted 30-day mortality performance while adjusting for: Age Sex Elixhauser index, which accounts for patients' existing level of comorbidity or illness ...

A condition that is (a) high cost or high volume or both, (b) results in the assignment of a case to an MS-DRG that has a higher payment when present as a secondary diagnosis, and (c) could reasonably ...

For each index HAC claim, there were five IPPS claims with the same Medicare Severity diagnosis-related group (MS-DRG), sex, race, and age that did NOT have a Stage III or IV pressure ulcer that were ...

MS is a disease that can affect your brain and spinal cord, and can cause problems with vision, balance, muscle control. As you learn more about they type of MS you have, you'll have a clearer ...

Since revealing she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) in 2021, Christina Applegate has been candid about her health and how's she's doing. She recently passed the three-year anniversary ...

To understand the discussion about the DRG payment system, it is helpful to give a short overview of the German system of providing hospital services. We will do this in a graphical way. In Figure 8.1 ...

Validates MS-DRG or APC assignments. Abstracts clinical data. Mitigates coding-related claims scrubber edits. Manage and optimize learning programs, collect and report program metrics, ...

Assigns ICD-10-CM and PCS codes for inpatient visits and assigns ICD-10 CM codes, EM levels, and surgical CPT codes for physician visits. Validates MS-DRG or APC assignments. Abstracts clinical data.