DRG definition

DRG means diagnosis related groups.

DRG means a diagnostic related group established by the federal health care financing administration.

DRG means Diagnosis Related Group;

Examples of DRG in a sentence

• Payment for each DRG is based on diagnoses, procedures, age, sex, expected discharge date, discharge status, and the presence of complications.

• For example, Federal mandates, changes in hospital payment from per diem rates to Diagnostic Related Group (DRG) rates or changes in the benefit coverage of the FFS program.

• The amount of payment for each DRG is generally within a fixed range because each patient is expected to use the same level of hospital resources for the given DRG regardless of the actual hospital resources used.

• The discharging hospital will receive 100 percent of the DRG payment.

• The rates vary according to the diagnosis-related group (DRG) to which a beneficiary’s stay is assigned and the severity level of the patient’s diagnosis.

More Definitions of DRG

DRG means the diagnosis related group, which is the system developed by the CMS to group services of similar intensity for the purpose of reimbursing hospitals based on a fixed fee for each patient case in a given category, rather than based on the actual

DRG means diagnostic related groups utilized in the Medicare program for health care reimbursement.

DRG means Diagnosis Related Group, a type of prospective payment system used in billing for inpatient episodes of care.

DRG means diagnostic related groups utilized in the Medicare and Medicaid programs for health care reimbursement.

DRG. (Diagnosis Related Group) means one of the classifications of diagnoses in which patients demonstrate similar resource consumption and length of stay patterns as for Medicare purposes by CMS (see “HCFA”).

DRG means "Diagnosis Related Group" or "DRG" means, a patient classification scheme that provides a means of categorizing hospital inpatients according to the resources required in treatment, developed for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for use in the Medicare Prospective Payment System.

DRG means Diagnosis Related Group or its successor as established by CMS or other grouper.