US · guidance
CMS Pub. 100-04, ch. 3, § 150.8
Relative Weights
Payment weights assigning a specific value representing the relative resource use of each
LTC DRG are determined by the hospital-specific relative value method. This
methodology normalizes charges within each hospital and then compares them across
hospitals. Relative weights are updated annually October 1 using the most recent
available claims data. Relative weights and the geometric average length of stay are in the
Pricer program.
History
(Rev. 1, 10-01-03)
Provenance
- Source
- cms.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-25
- Edition
- iom-2026-08-25
- Content hash
2f2fb9a0efb14f1bc33aa7e058a32c0b1e7cdcb3322ff5bef86e8dcacf8236b7
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