MS-DRG 445: DISORDERS OF THE BILIARY TRACT WITH CC
MS-DRG 445 is disorders of the biliary tract with cc, in MDC 07 (a medical DRG), at the with-CC (complication or comorbidity) level. Its FY2027 relative weight is 1.0872, 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. 72 ICD-10-CM principal diagnoses group into MS-DRGs 444–446 under the CMS definitions manual; the most-searched are listed below.
FY2027 payment factors
- Relative weight
- 1.0872
- Geometric mean LOS
- 2.90
- Arithmetic mean LOS
- 3.60
- Post-acute transfer
- No
Principal diagnoses that group to MS-DRGs 444–446
From the CMS MS-DRG definitions manual’s principal-diagnosis index: 72 ICD-10-CM codes route here, and the CC/MCC status of the secondary diagnoses decides which of 444–446 the case lands in. The 24 most-searched:
- K80.20Calculus of gallbladder without cholecystitis without obstruction
- K81.0Acute cholecystitis
- K80.00Calculus of gallbladder with acute cholecystitis without obstruction
- K82.8Other specified diseases of gallbladder
- K80.50Calculus of bile duct without cholangitis or cholecystitis without obstruction
- K83.1Obstruction of bile duct
- R93.2Abnormal findings on diagnostic imaging of liver and biliary tract
- K80.10Calculus of gallbladder with chronic cholecystitis without obstruction
- K81.1Chronic cholecystitis
- K83.8Other specified diseases of biliary tract
- K81.9Cholecystitis, unspecified
- K82.4Cholesterolosis of gallbladder
- K80.12Calculus of gallbladder with acute and chronic cholecystitis without obstruction
- K80.80Other cholelithiasis without obstruction
- K82.9Disease of gallbladder, unspecified
- K83.09Other cholangitis
- K83.9Disease of biliary tract, unspecified
- K80.21Calculus of gallbladder without cholecystitis with obstruction
- K80.51Calculus of bile duct without cholangitis or cholecystitis with obstruction
- K80.70Calculus of gallbladder and bile duct without cholecystitis without obstruction
- K81.2Acute cholecystitis with chronic cholecystitis
- K91.5Postcholecystectomy syndrome
- K80.01Calculus of gallbladder with acute cholecystitis with obstruction
- K80.11Calculus of gallbladder with chronic cholecystitis with obstruction
48 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 445.
| 444 | DISORDERS OF THE BILIARY TRACT WITH MCC | 1.6665 | +0.5793 |
| 445 | DISORDERS OF THE BILIARY TRACT WITH CC | 1.0872 | |
| 446 | DISORDERS OF THE BILIARY TRACT WITHOUT CC/MCC | 0.8124 | -0.2748 |
All FY2027 MS-DRGs · MDC 07