Which DRG corresponds to nonspecific CVA and precerebral occlusion w/o infarction with MCC?

• A. DRG 65
• B. DRG 66
• C. DRG 67
• D. DRG 68

Answer: (C)

Understand how DRGs group cerebrovascular disorders by severity. The category you’re dealing with depends on two factors: whether there is brain infarction (tissue death) and whether there is a major complication or comorbidity (MCC). Nonspecific CVA and precerebral occlusion without infarction describes a cerebrovascular event without brain tissue death. When an MCC is present, that pushes the case into a higher-severity DRG within this family. In the mapping used here, that higher-severity category is DRG 67. Without an MCC, it would fall into a lower DRG in this group, and infarction would place the case in a different DRG altogether. So for nonspecific CVA and precerebral occlusion without infarction with MCC, the DRG is 67.