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Tracheostomy for Face, Mouth and Neck Diagnoses or Laryngectomy without CC/MCC

Relative weight
2.7307
V44.0
In effect · V44.0 Pre-MDC Surgical
Severity family
011 012 013

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 2.7307
V43.1 FY 2026 (Apr-Sep) 2026-04-01 2.8818
V43.0 FY 2026 (Oct-Mar) 2025-10-01 2.8818
V42.1 FY 2025 (Apr-Sep) 2025-04-01 2.6500
V42.0 FY 2025 (Oct-Mar) 2024-10-01 2.6500
V41.1 FY 2024 (Apr-Sep) 2024-04-01 2.6857
V41.0 FY 2024 (Oct-Mar) 2023-10-01 2.6857
V40.1 FY 2023 (Apr-Sep) 2023-04-01 2.8283
V40.0 FY 2023 (Oct-Mar) 2022-10-01 2.8283

Range 2.6500 to 2.8818. A dash means the DRG did not exist in that version.

Codes that reach this DRG

10 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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