Autopsy diagnoses can increase DRG reimbursement.
To determine how missed clinical diagnoses revealed at autopsy might affect third-party payment through DRGs, the authors performed a retrospective comparison of clinical and pathologic diagnoses in 100 consecutive cases that came to autopsy. In 13 of these cases, the autopsy findings resulted in a change in DRG assignment, which could have produced an additional $14,235 for the hospital.
D001344:Autopsy / Q000191:economics*; D003953:Diagnosis-Related Groups / Q000191:economics*; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D011445:Prospective Payment System; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014481:United States