Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am Surg. 2019 Mar 1;85(3):256–260.

Table 2.

Outcomes by No Migration and DRG Migration.

No Migration DRG Migration (DRG 331 to 330)
Number of hospitals 216 133 131 135
Number of patients 4416 157 183 364
Length of Stay (D)* (±SD) 4.63 (1.17) 7.40 (4.15) 7.51 (3.46) 7.42 (2.82)
Payment ($)* (±SD) 6,984.24 (3,292.88) 10,714.70 (8,084.78) 11,341.83 (8,025.84) 10,740.16 (5,848.65)
Total Charge ($)* (±SD) 46,278.46 (24,448.50) 58,409.78 (43,234.23) 65,782.75 (39,959.05) 64,846.35 (34,787.88)
Excess Days 434 527 1016
*

Length of stay, Payment, and Total Charges were all statistically significant, <0.001. Standard deviation in parentheses.