MS-DRG 929: FULL THICKNESS BURN WITH SKIN GRAFT OR INHALATION INJURY WITHOUT CC/MCC
MS-DRG 929 is full thickness burn with skin graft or inhalation injury without cc/mcc, in MDC 22 (a surgical DRG), at the without-CC/MCC level. Its FY2027 relative weight is 3.0193, so a case here pays more than the average Medicare inpatient stay (weight 1.0), with a geometric mean length of stay of 5.60 days. 233 ICD-10-CM principal diagnoses group into MS-DRGs 928–929 under the CMS definitions manual; the most-searched are listed below.
FY2027 payment factors
- Relative weight
- 3.0193
- Geometric mean LOS
- 5.60
- Arithmetic mean LOS
- 7.90
- Post-acute transfer
- No
Principal diagnoses that group to MS-DRGs 928–929
From the CMS MS-DRG definitions manual’s principal-diagnosis index: 233 ICD-10-CM codes route here, and the CC/MCC status of the secondary diagnoses decides which of 928–929 the case lands in. The 24 most-searched:
- J96.01Acute respiratory failure with hypoxia
- J96.21Acute and chronic respiratory failure with hypoxia
- J96.00Acute respiratory failure, unspecified whether with hypoxia or hypercapnia
- J96.90Respiratory failure, unspecified, unspecified whether with hypoxia or hypercapnia
- J96.20Acute and chronic respiratory failure, unspecified whether with hypoxia or hypercapnia
- J96.22Acute and chronic respiratory failure with hypercapnia
- J96.02Acute respiratory failure with hypercapnia
- J96.91Respiratory failure, unspecified with hypoxia
- J95.2Acute pulmonary insufficiency following nonthoracic surgery
- J95.821Acute postprocedural respiratory failure
- T20.30XABurn of third degree of head, face, and neck, unspecified site, initial encounter
- T21.31XABurn of third degree of chest wall, initial encounter
- T23.302ABurn of third degree of left hand, unspecified site, initial encounter
- T24.311ABurn of third degree of right thigh, initial encounter
- T24.312ABurn of third degree of left thigh, initial encounter
- T24.711ACorrosion of third degree of right thigh, initial encounter
- T31.11Burns involving 10-19% of body surface with 10-19% third degree burns
- J70.5Respiratory conditions due to smoke inhalation
- J95.1Acute pulmonary insufficiency following thoracic surgery
- J95.3Chronic pulmonary insufficiency following surgery
- J95.822Acute and chronic postprocedural respiratory failure
- J96.92Respiratory failure, unspecified with hypercapnia
- T20.311ABurn of third degree of right ear [any part, except ear drum], initial encounter
- T20.312ABurn of third degree of left ear [any part, except ear drum], initial encounter
209 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 929.
| 928 | FULL THICKNESS BURN WITH SKIN GRAFT OR INHALATION INJURY WITH CC/MCC | 7.6477 | +4.6284 |
| 929 | FULL THICKNESS BURN WITH SKIN GRAFT OR INHALATION INJURY WITHOUT CC/MCC | 3.0193 |
All FY2027 MS-DRGs · MDC 22