Fact Based List:
5 DRGs with the highest cost in 2013
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 09/15/2016 - 13:55
- Major joint replacement or reattachment of lower extremity cost: $6.6
- Septicemia or severe sepsis cost: $5.56 billion
- Infectious & parasitic diseases cost: $2.18 billion
- Heart failure & shock cost: $2.11 billion
- Spinal fusion except cervical cost: $2.1 billion
Source: American Action Forum
Source URL: https://www.americanactionforum.org/weekly-checkup/ten-costl...
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