976
MS-DRG 976 — HIV WITH MAJOR RELATED CONDITION WITHOUT CC/MCC
DRGMedicalMDC 25
FY2026 payment factors
- Relative weight
- 0.9027
- Geometric mean LOS
- 3.00
- Arithmetic mean LOS
- 3.80
- Post-acute transfer
- No
CMS caps year-over-year weight decreases at 10%. Before the cap this DRG weighs 0.8945; the capped weight above is the one used for payment. Thirty DRGs differ this way in FY2026.
Other DRGs in MDC 25
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.