diagnostic related group การใช้

• The cost of the test is covered by a diagnostic related group ( DRG ) payment.
• A new trial Diagnostic Related Group ( or DRG ), medicine's standardized compendium of acceptable diagnoses, now allows hospitals to admit patients for palliative care, which may steer terminal patients away from hospice and into hospitals, always searching for new sources of income.
• Among his professional achievements, he served 12 years as Chairman of the congressionally legislated Prospective Payment Assessment Commission ( ProPac ) formed to advise Congress and the Administration on the functioning of the Medicare Diagnostic Related Group ( DRG ) Hospital Payment System and other system reforms.
• Health Law s2807-c ( McKinney 1993 ) . ( footnote 2 ) The scheme calls for patients to be charged not for the cost of their individual treatment, but for the average cost of treating the patient's medical problem, as classified under one or another of 794 Diagnostic Related Groups ( DRGs ).