MS-DRG 076: VIRAL MENINGITIS WITHOUT CC/MCC
MS-DRG 076 is viral meningitis without cc/mcc, in MDC 01 (a medical DRG), at the without-CC/MCC level. Its FY2027 relative weight is 0.8675, so a case here pays less than the average Medicare inpatient stay (weight 1.0), with a geometric mean length of stay of 2.80 days. 10 ICD-10-CM principal diagnoses group into MS-DRGs 075–076 under the CMS definitions manual; the most-searched are listed below.
FY2027 payment factors
- Relative weight
- 0.8675
- Geometric mean LOS
- 2.80
- Arithmetic mean LOS
- 3.40
- Post-acute transfer
- No
Principal diagnoses that group to MS-DRGs 075–076
From the CMS MS-DRG definitions manual’s principal-diagnosis index: 10 ICD-10-CM codes route here, and the CC/MCC status of the secondary diagnoses decides which of 075–076 the case lands in. The 10 most-searched:
- A87.0Enteroviral meningitis
- A87.9Viral meningitis, unspecified
- A87.1Adenoviral meningitis
- A87.2Lymphocytic choriomeningitis
- A87.8Other viral meningitis
- A88.0Enteroviral exanthematous fever [Boston exanthem]
- B00.3Herpesviral meningitis
- B02.1Zoster meningitis
- B26.1Mumps meningitis
- G03.2Benign recurrent meningitis [Mollaret]
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 076.
| 075 | VIRAL MENINGITIS WITH CC/MCC | 1.7707 | +0.9032 |
| 076 | VIRAL MENINGITIS WITHOUT CC/MCC | 0.8675 |
All FY2027 MS-DRGs · MDC 01