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MS-DRG 074: CRANIAL AND PERIPHERAL NERVE DISORDERS WITHOUT MCC

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MS-DRG 074 is cranial and peripheral nerve disorders without mcc, in MDC 01 (a medical DRG), at the without-CC/MCC level. Its FY2027 relative weight is 1.0173, so a case here pays more than the average Medicare inpatient stay (weight 1.0), with a geometric mean length of stay of 2.90 days. 378 ICD-10-CM principal diagnoses group into MS-DRGs 073–074 under the CMS definitions manual; the most-searched are listed below.

FY2027 payment factors

Relative weight
1.0173
Geometric mean LOS
2.90
Arithmetic mean LOS
3.70
Post-acute transfer
No

Principal diagnoses that group to MS-DRGs 073–074

From the CMS MS-DRG definitions manual’s principal-diagnosis index: 378 ICD-10-CM codes route here, and the CC/MCC status of the secondary diagnoses decides which of 073–074 the case lands in. The 24 most-searched:

  • M54.12Radiculopathy, cervical region
  • G62.9Polyneuropathy, unspecified
  • E11.42Type 2 diabetes mellitus with diabetic polyneuropathy
  • G63Polyneuropathy in diseases classified elsewhere
  • G56.01Carpal tunnel syndrome, right upper limb
  • E11.40Type 2 diabetes mellitus with diabetic neuropathy, unspecified
  • M79.2Neuralgia and neuritis, unspecified
  • G56.03Carpal tunnel syndrome, bilateral upper limbs
  • G60.9Hereditary and idiopathic neuropathy, unspecified
  • G50.0Trigeminal neuralgia
  • G54.0Brachial plexus disorders
  • G56.02Carpal tunnel syndrome, left upper limb
  • G61.81Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuritis
  • B02.29Other postherpetic nervous system involvement
  • G56.21Lesion of ulnar nerve, right upper limb
  • E11.49Type 2 diabetes mellitus with other diabetic neurological complication
  • G56.00Carpal tunnel syndrome, unspecified upper limb
  • G56.22Lesion of ulnar nerve, left upper limb
  • G60.3Idiopathic progressive neuropathy
  • G64Other disorders of peripheral nervous system
  • G90.09Other idiopathic peripheral autonomic neuropathy
  • E11.43Type 2 diabetes mellitus with diabetic autonomic (poly)neuropathy
  • E11.610Type 2 diabetes mellitus with diabetic neuropathic arthropathy
  • G51.0Bell's palsy

354 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 074.

073CRANIAL AND PERIPHERAL NERVE DISORDERS WITH MCC1.5779+0.5606
074CRANIAL AND PERIPHERAL NERVE DISORDERS WITHOUT MCC1.0173

Choosing the principal diagnosis: Low back pain ICD-10 codes, Type 2 diabetes ICD-10 codes.

All FY2027 MS-DRGs · MDC 01

MS-DRG (IPPS Table 5)FY2027