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DRG Medicare Pricing: A Deep Study

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The Diagnosis-related group (DRG) represents the relative coastlines of inpatient hospital services provided to Medical beneficiaries. By the implementation of PPS, the price rates of DRGs are based on both estimated costs and charges. The chief usage of DRG payments is that it is used to determine how much money Medicare and certain private health insurance companies will pay for hospitalizations of their beneficiaries.  The DRG medicare pricing is used to classify various diagnoses for inpatient hospital stays into groups and subgroups so that Medicare can accurately pay the hospital bill. In order to determine what amount of money a hospital will get for treating patients, the importance of the DRG system is undeniable. Each DRG is assigned a relative weight based resources that are used while taken care of the patient assigned to that DRG. One can look up the relative weight for a particular DRG by simply downloading the chart as provided on the official website of CMS.  DRG basic