A key objective is to enable updates to the MS-DRG payment rates that are no longer dependent on gross charges billed by hospitals that are reduced to cost using hospitals' cost report data. Included ...

Terumo Aortic announced that a new Medicare Severity Diagnosis-Related Group (MS-DRG) for complex aortic arch procedures has ...

If additional procedure codes describing CAR T-cell therapies are approved and finalized, CMS will assign them to the most appropriate MS-DRG. Q: CMS created a new MS-DRG for chimeric antigen receptor ...

Diagnostic-related groups (DRGs) are how Medicare and some other health insurance companies categorize hospital costs to determine how much to pay for a hospital stay. With DRGs, the payment amount ...

Hospitals decide how much to bill Medicare for your care based on your diagnostic-related group (DRG). They then charge Medicare based on your DRG tier instead of separately for each of your medical ...