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 ...
Terumo Aortic announced that a new Medicare Severity Diagnosis-Related Group (MS-DRG) for complex aortic arch procedures has ...
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 ...
By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News-- A new study on Managed Care is now available. The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical ...
The process of bundled payments — in which hospitals, physicians, post-acute care providers and other receive a lump sum to cover a specific episode of care over an allotted period of time — is still ...
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 ...