MS-DRG 298: CARDIAC ARREST, UNEXPLAINED WITHOUT CC/MCC
MS-DRG 298 is cardiac arrest, unexplained without cc/mcc, in MDC 05 (a medical DRG), at the without-CC/MCC level. Its FY2027 relative weight is 0.4946, so a case here pays less than the average Medicare inpatient stay (weight 1.0), with a geometric mean length of stay of 1.00 days. 3 ICD-10-CM principal diagnoses group into MS-DRGs 296–298 under the CMS definitions manual; the most-searched are listed below.
FY2027 payment factors
- Relative weight
- 0.4946
- Geometric mean LOS
- 1.00
- Arithmetic mean LOS
- 1.00
- Post-acute transfer
- No
Principal diagnoses that group to MS-DRGs 296–298
From the CMS MS-DRG definitions manual’s principal-diagnosis index: 3 ICD-10-CM codes route here, and the CC/MCC status of the secondary diagnoses decides which of 296–298 the case lands in. The 3 most-searched:
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 298.
| 296 | CARDIAC ARREST, UNEXPLAINED WITH MCC | 1.4991 | +1.0045 |
| 297 | CARDIAC ARREST, UNEXPLAINED WITH CC | 0.7776 | +0.2830 |
| 298 | CARDIAC ARREST, UNEXPLAINED WITHOUT CC/MCC | 0.4946 |
All FY2027 MS-DRGs · MDC 05