diagnosis-related group

Each patient is classified in one of 526 categories, known as diagnosis-related groups.

The conditions are classifed under 471 headings called "diagnosis-related groups."

In addition, the Medicare diagnosis-related groups system has squeezed hospitals into shorter hospital stays for the elderly.

It has been exacerbated in recent years, mostly as a result of changing demographics and Medicare payment by diagnosis-related groups.

The diagnosis-related groups system issued fixed fees based on average case costs, a practice that encourages hospitals to expedite treatment.

Regional and university hospitals are financed by federations of participating municipalities, often using the diagnosis-related group system.

The Federal Government wants to put physician payments under diagnosis-related groups, effectively denying the elderly specialty care for their multiple medical problems.

Medicare classifies inpatients in 490 "diagnosis-related groups" and pays a flat amount for each patient, depending on the diagnosis.

Recent efforts at cost containment, such as diagnosis-related groups and Medicare price freezes, certainly have their flaws and deserve criticism.

Diagnosis-related group (DRG) is a system to classify hospital cases into one of originally 467 groups.

Case mix index (CMI) is a relative value assigned to a diagnosis-related group of patients in a medical care environment.

The term "cost-effective" can be defined in many ways, but the definition for diagnosis-related groups is simply, "How cheaply can it be done?"

The actual allotment of funds is based on a list of diagnosis-related groups (DRG).

Although this system, "diagnosis-related group payment," takes away the incentive to create long itemized bills, it has promoted the proliferation of bills from outside the hospital.

Well, after surgery, they determined my wife's illness belonged in Diagnosis-Related Group 049, 1 of some 470 categories that have been established covering all possible ailments.

By 1983, the diagnosis-related group (DRG) replaced pay for service reimbursements to hospitals for Medicare patients.

See also Diagnosis-related group (DRG).

Medicare now reimburses hospitals at a fixed amount for specific categories of illness called diagnosis-related groups, or D.R.G's, a system that the medical association has opposed.

Cases are aggregated using diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) which are assigned post-hoc and may not accurately represent patients' clinical presentations.

The APG system is similar to the Diagnosis-related groups (DRG), which apply to urgent care.

For health encounters that are funded through a case mix mechanism, the clinical coder will also review the diagnosis-related group to ensure that it does fairly represent the health encounter.

Diagnosis-Related Groups Under Medicare, the Government pays hospitals a fixed amount for each patient and each type of illness, regardless of how long the patient spends in the hospital.

Since then hospitals have been required to classify each Medicare patient's illness into one of 487 Diagnosis-Related Groups, or D.R.G.'s in the alphabet soup of health care.

Recognizing this, the diagnosis-related group (DRG) manually splits certain DRGs based on the presence of secondary diagnoses for specific complications or comorbidities (CC).

Each DRG has a relative average value assigned to it that indicates the amount of resources required to treat patients in the group, as compared to all the other diagnosis-related groups within the system.