Effective October 1, 2009
The Market Basket update factor is 2.1%. Version 27 of the DRG fee schedule reflects a base rate of $7,795 for urban hospitals and $10,024 for rural hospitals. The threshold amount for outlier cases is $76,542 for urban hospitals and $59,510 for rural hospitals. The marginal cost factor is .80.
Version 27 of the MS-DRG LTCH fee schedule has a base rate of $46,937. The outlier threshold is $18,425 and the cost-to-charge ratio is 0.317.
