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005

Liver Transplant with MCC or Intestinal Transplant

Relative weight
10.4787
V44.0
In effect · V44.0 Pre-MDC Surgical
Severity family
005 006

Same base procedure, split by complication and comorbidity level.

Assigned before MDC logic runs, so it is driven by the procedure rather than the principal diagnosis. The grouper still reports the principal diagnosis's own MDC on a grouped claim.

Relative weight by grouper version

CMS publishes classification in the Definitions Manual and weights in Table 5 of the IPPS rule, one spreadsheet per year. These are the 9 versions this grouper supports.

Version Fiscal year Effective Relative weight
V44.0 FY 2027 2026-10-01 10.4787
V43.1 FY 2026 (Apr-Sep) 2026-04-01 10.3105
V43.0 FY 2026 (Oct-Mar) 2025-10-01 10.3105
V42.1 FY 2025 (Apr-Sep) 2025-04-01 10.6494
V42.0 FY 2025 (Oct-Mar) 2024-10-01 10.6494
V41.1 FY 2024 (Apr-Sep) 2024-04-01 10.3500
V41.0 FY 2024 (Oct-Mar) 2023-10-01 10.3500
V40.1 FY 2023 (Apr-Sep) 2023-04-01 11.4070
V40.0 FY 2023 (Oct-Mar) 2022-10-01 11.4070

Range 10.3105 to 11.4070. A dash means the DRG did not exist in that version.

Codes that reach this DRG

9 ICD-10-PCS procedures. Each maps here on its own; procedure clusters can also reach this DRG through combinations, listed separately below.

Procedures

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