Ask the expert: Q: Do you have any information about a crosswalk between the old DRGs and the new Medicare Severity DRGs (MS-DRG)?
HIM Connection, October 2, 2007
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A: Yes. CMS has published a DRG to MS-DRG crosswalk. Go to www.cms.hhs.gov/AcuteInpatientPPS/ and click on Acute Inpatient-Files for Download on the left side. Then scroll through the list of available files for the crosswalk.
Editor's note: This Q&A was adapted from an article in the October 2007 issue of Briefings on Coding Compliance Strategies. For more information, visit http://www.hcpro.com/content/76859.cfm.
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