MS-DRG 052: SPINAL DISORDERS AND INJURIES WITH CC/MCC
MS-DRG 052 is spinal disorders and injuries with cc/mcc, in MDC 01 (a medical DRG), at the with-CC (complication or comorbidity) level. Its FY2027 relative weight is 1.7837, so a case here pays more than the average Medicare inpatient stay (weight 1.0), with a geometric mean length of stay of 4.20 days. 223 ICD-10-CM principal diagnoses group into MS-DRGs 052–053 under the CMS definitions manual; the most-searched are listed below.
FY2027 payment factors
- Relative weight
- 1.7837
- Geometric mean LOS
- 4.20
- Arithmetic mean LOS
- 5.70
- Post-acute transfer
- No
Principal diagnoses that group to MS-DRGs 052–053
From the CMS MS-DRG definitions manual’s principal-diagnosis index: 223 ICD-10-CM codes route here, and the CC/MCC status of the secondary diagnoses decides which of 052–053 the case lands in. The 24 most-searched:
- G80.0Spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy
- G82.20Paraplegia, unspecified
- G82.50Quadriplegia, unspecified
- G80.1Spastic diplegic cerebral palsy
- G80.2Spastic hemiplegic cerebral palsy
- G82.22Paraplegia, incomplete
- G82.21Paraplegia, complete
- S14.109AUnspecified injury at unspecified level of cervical spinal cord, initial encounter
- G04.1Tropical spastic paraplegia
- G82.51Quadriplegia, C1-C4 complete
- G82.52Quadriplegia, C1-C4 incomplete
- G82.53Quadriplegia, C5-C7 complete
- G82.54Quadriplegia, C5-C7 incomplete
- G83.0Diplegia of upper limbs
- Q87.88CTNNB1 syndrome
- S14.0XXAConcussion and edema of cervical spinal cord, initial encounter
- S14.0XXSConcussion and edema of cervical spinal cord, sequela
- S14.101AUnspecified injury at C1 level of cervical spinal cord, initial encounter
- S14.101SUnspecified injury at C1 level of cervical spinal cord, sequela
- S14.102AUnspecified injury at C2 level of cervical spinal cord, initial encounter
- S14.102SUnspecified injury at C2 level of cervical spinal cord, sequela
- S14.103AUnspecified injury at C3 level of cervical spinal cord, initial encounter
- S14.103SUnspecified injury at C3 level of cervical spinal cord, sequela
- S14.104AUnspecified injury at C4 level of cervical spinal cord, initial encounter
199 more codes group here. Open any code above for its full hierarchy, or check a whole claim in the free DRG calculator.
The severity splits
Same base DRG, split by whether a secondary diagnosis is a CC or MCC. The last column is the weight change from MS-DRG 052.
| 052 | SPINAL DISORDERS AND INJURIES WITH CC/MCC | 1.7837 | |
| 053 | SPINAL DISORDERS AND INJURIES WITHOUT CC/MCC | 0.9728 | -0.8109 |
All FY2027 MS-DRGs · MDC 01