MS-DRG 798 — VAGINAL DELIVERY WITH STERILIZATION AND/OR D&C WITHOUT CC/MCC
FY2026 payment factors
- Relative weight
- 0.9571
- Geometric mean LOS
- 2.30
- Arithmetic mean LOS
- 2.50
- Post-acute transfer
- No
Other DRGs in MDC 14
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.
- 768VAGINAL DELIVERY WITH O.R. PROCEDURES EXCEPT STERILIZATION AND/OR D&C1.0716
- 769POSTPARTUM AND POST ABORTION DIAGNOSES WITH O.R. PROCEDURES1.6898
- 770ABORTION WITH D&C, ASPIRATION CURETTAGE OR HYSTEROTOMY1.0027
- 776POSTPARTUM AND POST ABORTION DIAGNOSES WITHOUT O.R. PROCEDURES0.6547
- 779ABORTION WITHOUT D&C0.8413
- 783CESAREAN SECTION WITH STERILIZATION WITH MCC2.4551
- 784CESAREAN SECTION WITH STERILIZATION WITH CC1.0601
- 785CESAREAN SECTION WITH STERILIZATION WITHOUT CC/MCC0.9578
- 786CESAREAN SECTION WITHOUT STERILIZATION WITH MCC1.6495
- 787CESAREAN SECTION WITHOUT STERILIZATION WITH CC1.1168
- 788CESAREAN SECTION WITHOUT STERILIZATION WITHOUT CC/MCC0.9588
- 796VAGINAL DELIVERY WITH STERILIZATION AND/OR D&C WITH MCC1.1670
- 797VAGINAL DELIVERY WITH STERILIZATION AND/OR D&C WITH CC1.0004
- 805VAGINAL DELIVERY WITHOUT STERILIZATION OR D&C WITH MCC1.0792
- 806VAGINAL DELIVERY WITHOUT STERILIZATION OR D&C WITH CC0.7540
- 807VAGINAL DELIVERY WITHOUT STERILIZATION OR D&C WITHOUT CC/MCC0.6742
- 817OTHER ANTEPARTUM DIAGNOSES WITH O.R. PROCEDURES WITH MCC2.2816
- 818OTHER ANTEPARTUM DIAGNOSES WITH O.R. PROCEDURES WITH CC1.1592
- 819OTHER ANTEPARTUM DIAGNOSES WITH O.R. PROCEDURES WITHOUT CC/MCC0.8599
- 831OTHER ANTEPARTUM DIAGNOSES WITHOUT O.R. PROCEDURES WITH MCC1.2025
- 832OTHER ANTEPARTUM DIAGNOSES WITHOUT O.R. PROCEDURES WITH CC0.7216
- 833OTHER ANTEPARTUM DIAGNOSES WITHOUT O.R. PROCEDURES WITHOUT CC/MCC0.5229
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 798 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 798 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.