Remove Ext Heart Assist from Thor Aorta Desc, Perc
An operating room procedure. An O.R. procedure drives DRG assignment on its own, so it can change the MDC and MS-DRG regardless of the principal diagnosis. It is also part of a procedure cluster, meaning certain combinations group differently than this code does alone.
One MDC, with the conditional pathways below listed separately.
02PW3RZ belongs to 11 procedure clusters. Reported with the code beside it, the claim groups to the DRGs shown rather than the ones above.
Enter 02PW3RZ to see the DRG and its relative weight.
Open the MS-DRG grouper