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Surgical Hierarchy Among MS-DRG 243 and 247

Published on Wed Sep 17, 2014

Question: If a patient with a major complication and comorbidity gets a permanent cardiac pacemaker implant and also undergoes percutaneous cardiovascular procedure with drug-eluting stent in the same stay, which MS-DRG should I assign to him? Texas Subscriber Answer: When a provider performs more than one procedure, you should assign the DRG that is highest according to the surgical hierarchy in the [...]
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