MS-DRG 724 — MALIGNANCY, MALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM WITHOUT CC/MCC
FY2026 payment factors
- Relative weight
- 0.6557
- Geometric mean LOS
- 1.80
- Arithmetic mean LOS
- 2.10
- Post-acute transfer
- No
CMS caps year-over-year weight decreases at 10%. Before the cap this DRG weighs 0.6117; the capped weight above is the one used for payment. Thirty DRGs differ this way in FY2026.
Other DRGs in MDC 12
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.
- 707MAJOR MALE PELVIC PROCEDURES WITH CC/MCC2.0003
- 708MAJOR MALE PELVIC PROCEDURES WITHOUT CC/MCC1.5342
- 709PENIS PROCEDURES WITH CC/MCC2.3271
- 710PENIS PROCEDURES WITHOUT CC/MCC1.4012
- 711TESTES PROCEDURES WITH CC/MCC2.0838
- 712TESTES PROCEDURES WITHOUT CC/MCC1.0997
- 713TRANSURETHRAL PROSTATECTOMY WITH CC/MCC1.5034
- 714TRANSURETHRAL PROSTATECTOMY WITHOUT CC/MCC1.0574
- 715OTHER MALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM O.R. PROCEDURES FOR MALIGNANCY WITH CC/MCC2.2373
- 716OTHER MALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM O.R. PROCEDURES FOR MALIGNANCY WITHOUT CC/MCC1.4710
- 717OTHER MALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM O.R. PROCEDURES EXCEPT MALIGNANCY WITH CC/MCC1.8905
- 718OTHER MALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM O.R. PROCEDURES EXCEPT MALIGNANCY WITHOUT CC/MCC1.3431
- 722MALIGNANCY, MALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM WITH MCC1.8097
- 723MALIGNANCY, MALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM WITH CC1.1427
- 725BENIGN PROSTATIC HYPERTROPHY WITH MCC1.1702
- 726BENIGN PROSTATIC HYPERTROPHY WITHOUT MCC0.7220
- 727INFLAMMATION OF THE MALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM WITH MCC1.4829
- 728INFLAMMATION OF THE MALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM WITHOUT MCC0.8112
- 729OTHER MALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM DIAGNOSES WITH CC/MCC1.0587
- 730OTHER MALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM DIAGNOSES WITHOUT CC/MCC0.6720
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 724 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 724 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.