HCFA to add measure of severity to DRGs. Part II.
This is the second of a three-part series on the Health Care Financing Administration's (HCFA) refinement of its Diagnosis Related Groups system incorporating a measure of severity of illness. Part 2 continues with information from the agency that administers the Medicare program. Part 3, to be published in our September/October 1994 issue, will present expert opinions on what effect HCFA's changes will have on hospitals across the U.S.
D000043:Abstracting and Indexing; D014487:Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S.; D015897:Comorbidity; D003953:Diagnosis-Related Groups / Q000145:classification*; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006302:Health Services Research; D006801:Humans; D008499:Medical Records / Q000145:classification; D006278:Medicare; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D014481:United States