Inpatient hospital records

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Remembering that all inpatient hospital records, when coded, group to a DRG. Each DRG is based on the UHDDS definition of principal diagnosis and then cormorbidities, complications, other secondary diagnoses, principal procedure, other procedures, patient age, gender and discharge status. The PDX drives the assignment of the DRG and the DRG may be paired with a higher weighted DRG if the patient has at least one complication or comorbidity (CCs or major CCs) and then another pair for that same PDX but with one or more operative room procedure(s) without any CCs or the highest weight of all for that PDX which is with at least one op room procedure and at least one CC. The DRG then, falls into one of the major diagnostic classes (MDCs). A patient is admitted to the hospital with back pain. The PDX is pyelonephritis. The patient also has depression, IBS and DM. In the Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS), which of the following woudl determine the MDC assignment for this patient? Group of answer choices Depression Diabetes Irritable Bowel Syndrome Pyelonephritis.

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