Which type of billing codes is used by Medicare to determine the level of severity and per diem rate?
1. POA
2. MS-DRG
3. ICD
4. PPAC
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Rationale: When a patient enters the hospital, a present on admission (POA) diagnosis is given and the patient is assigned to a Medicare-severity diagnosis related group (MS-DRG). There are 745 such classifications, and these determine the per diem rate as of May 2007 (Walters, 2007).
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