MS-DRG 153 — OTITIS MEDIA AND URI WITHOUT MCC

DRGMedicalMDC 03

FY2026 payment factors

Relative weight: 0.7382
Geometric mean LOS: 2.20
Arithmetic mean LOS: 2.80
Post-acute transfer: No

Other DRGs in MDC 03

The with-MCC, with-CC and without-CC/MCC splits usually sit next to each other here. Those are what a documentation query is actually deciding between, and the weight gap between them is why the query is worth raising.

135SINUS AND MASTOID PROCEDURES WITH CC/MCC2.1700
136SINUS AND MASTOID PROCEDURES WITHOUT CC/MCC1.0153
137MOUTH PROCEDURES WITH CC/MCC1.4932
138MOUTH PROCEDURES WITHOUT CC/MCC0.8862
139SALIVARY GLAND PROCEDURES1.2357
140MAJOR HEAD AND NECK PROCEDURES WITH MCC4.2653
141MAJOR HEAD AND NECK PROCEDURES WITH CC2.1811
142MAJOR HEAD AND NECK PROCEDURES WITHOUT CC/MCC1.5964
143OTHER EAR, NOSE, MOUTH AND THROAT O.R. PROCEDURES WITH MCC3.7466
144OTHER EAR, NOSE, MOUTH AND THROAT O.R. PROCEDURES WITH CC1.7329
145OTHER EAR, NOSE, MOUTH AND THROAT O.R. PROCEDURES WITHOUT CC/MCC1.2023
146EAR, NOSE, MOUTH AND THROAT MALIGNANCY WITH MCC2.1174
147EAR, NOSE, MOUTH AND THROAT MALIGNANCY WITH CC1.2715
148EAR, NOSE, MOUTH AND THROAT MALIGNANCY WITHOUT CC/MCC0.7971
149DYSEQUILIBRIUM0.7516
150EPISTAXIS WITH MCC1.3315
151EPISTAXIS WITHOUT MCC0.7340
152OTITIS MEDIA AND URI WITH MCC1.1822
154OTHER EAR, NOSE, MOUTH AND THROAT DIAGNOSES WITH MCC1.5635
155OTHER EAR, NOSE, MOUTH AND THROAT DIAGNOSES WITH CC0.9165
156OTHER EAR, NOSE, MOUTH AND THROAT DIAGNOSES WITHOUT CC/MCC0.6911
157DENTAL AND ORAL DISEASES WITH MCC1.7168
158DENTAL AND ORAL DISEASES WITH CC0.9098
159DENTAL AND ORAL DISEASES WITHOUT CC/MCC0.7085

Working the claim behind this DRG

A DRG is assigned from the diagnoses and procedures already on the claim, so the questions that decide MS-DRG 153 are coding questions. Look the principal diagnosis up in the full ICD-10-CM tabular list with its Excludes1 and “code first” notes attached, or start from the condition instead of the code in the codes-by-condition index. For the secondary diagnoses that move a case between the with-MCC, with-CC and without-CC/MCC splits, paste the whole set into the free claim scrubber and see which pairs collide before the claim goes out — no account, no card.

The supplies, drugs and devices billed alongside an inpatient stay are HCPCS Level II, listed in full at HCPCS by section. If the claim comes back rejected, the denial code index explains what each CARC actually means and what to do about it, and the decision guides walk the sequencing calls that most often cause one — sepsis and diabetes above all.

Every one of those is free and needs no account. This page is the payment table: it says what MS-DRG 153 is worth. Which medical DRG a set of diagnoses lands in is the workspace’s DRG impact check, from the CMS CC/MCC lists; it does not group surgical cases.