LF MCMAHON Jr, HL SMITS - Annals of internal medicine, 1986 - Am Coll Physicians The Medicare prospective payment system represents a fundamental change in hospital
payment. The diagnosis-related group (DRG) patient classification scheme serves as the modifier
of payment for this system. The DRG definitions are, in turn, based on the International ... Cited by 57 - Related articles - All 3 versions
RL Mullin - JAMA, 1985 - Am Med Assoc You are seeing this message because your Web browser does not support basic Web
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AR Feinstein - Archives of Internal Medicine, 1988 - archinte.highwire.org \s=b\A system of scientific classification should have a suitable basic axis of organization, standardized
names, clearly spec- ified operational criteria, and multiaxial arrangements for citing important
attributes beyond those included in the basic axis. During the past century, the main ... Cited by 55 - Related articles - All 3 versions
DC Hsia, CA Ahern, BP Ritchie, LM Moscoe, WM … - JAMA, 1992 - Am Med Assoc BACKGROUND--Hospital reimbursement by Medicare's prospective payment system depends
on accurate identification and coding of inpatients' diagnoses and procedures using the International
Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM). A previous ... Cited by 111 - Related articles - All 3 versions
DW Simborg - New England Journal of Medicine, 1981 - content.nejm.org Original Article from The New England Journal of Medicine --
DRG creep: a new hospital-acquired disease.
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SF Jencks - JAMA, 1992 - Am Med Assoc Although making accurate diagnoses is a critical clinical skill, putting accurate diagnoses on
the face sheet of a medical record does not have the same priority for most physicians. Even
those who see recording a correct principal diagnosis as an important part of good ... Cited by 45 - Related articles - All 2 versions
PM Gertman, S Lowenstein - Health care financing review, 1984 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov The new Medicare Prospective Payment System has been challenged with regard to its fairness
in reimbursing hospitals adequately, given the true resource needs in caring for patients. Most
of these criticisms are now labelled as issues about adjustments for severity of illness. ... Cited by 23 - Related articles - All 2 versions
LI Iezzoni - International journal of technology assessment in …, 1990 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Diagnostic information within administrative data bases is generally in the form of International
Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) codes. The purpose
of this article is to introduce ICD-9-CM, to review its strengths and limitations, and to ... Cited by 106 - Related articles - All 2 versions
SF Jencks, DK Williams, TL Kay - Jama, 1988 - Am Med Assoc To assess the meaning of hospital-associated death rates, we studied whether mortality within
30 days of hospital admission (30-day mortality) is more informative than inpatient mortality and
whether detailed assessment of additional discharge diagnoses helps in understanding ... Cited by 282 - Related articles - All 3 versions
LF McMahon, JE Billi - Journal of General Internal Medicine, 1988 - Springer THE ADVENT of the Diagnosis Related Group (DRG)- based Medicare Prospective Payment
System (PPS) has occasioned concern about the equity of the sys- tem across the nation's
hospitals. -s The DRG pro- spective payment system is predicated on the as- sumption ... Cited by 33 - Related articles - All 2 versions