Health Systems Consultants

This year CMS implemented a new Medicare payment system based on severity-adjusted DRGs (called CMS MS-DRGs) and for most hospitals it has been an enormous burden. Installing the software updates, changing coding procedures, training your team. There has been little time for anything else. Now you have a little breathing room. Time to refocus on performance analysis, benchmarking comparisons, and resource planning. Don't default to CMS MS-DRGs. They were designed only for Medicare.