Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs) and the Medicare Program: Implications for Medical Technology, 1983

Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs) and the Medicare Program: Implications for Medical Technology

Preface The increase in the cost of hospital care has been a persistent and growing problem for both the Medicare program and the general public for more than iS years. A substantial portion of the increase in hospital costs has been attributed to an increase in the use of new and existing medical technologies. Congress recently legislated a new prospective per-case payment system for the Medic...

Cholecystectomy and Diagnosis-Related Groups (DRGs): Patient Classification and Hospital Reimbursement in 11 European Countries

Background As part of the EuroDRG project, researchers from eleven countries (i.e. Austria, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, and Spain) compared how their Diagnosis-Related Groups (DRG) systems deal with cholecystectomy patients. The study aims to assist surgeons and national authorities to optimize their DRG systems.   Methods National or region...

Medicare: Short-stay hospital services, by leading diagnosis-related groups, 1983 and 1985

Assigning a code from any of the diagnosis-related groups to a short-stay hospital discharge covered by Medicare is tantamount to the Medicare payment to the hospital, subject to certain statutory adjustments. Therefore, diagnosis-related groups are the backbone of the prospective payment system implemented October 1, 1983. However, methods employed in the assignment of diagnosis-related groups...

Diagnosis-related groups: implications for psychiatry

The escalating cost of medical care in most industrial countries has given impetus to several different strat egies designed to impose limitations on cost and introduce efficiency into health care systems. In the United States of America, legislation was passed in 1983 to introduce a system of prospective payment for Medicare hospital expenditures. This change was a departure from the previous ...

The Medicare DRGs: Efficiency and Organizational Rationality