977
MS-DRG 977 — HIV WITH OR WITHOUT OTHER RELATED CONDITION
DRGMedicalMDC 25
FY2026 payment factors
- Relative weight
- 1.2977
- Geometric mean LOS
- 3.60
- Arithmetic mean LOS
- 5.10
- Post-acute transfer
- No
CMS caps year-over-year weight decreases at 10%. Before the cap this DRG weighs 1.2676; 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.