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Outliers, DRG

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Definition: In health care reimbursement, especially in the prospective payment system, those patients who require an unusually long hospital stay or whose stay generates unusually high costs.  a concept in health care reimbursement; outliers as a statist concept, index under STATISTICS AS TOPIC or specific statist term    Other names Diagnosis-Related Group Outliers; DRG Outliers; Outliers, Diagnostic-Related Group; Outliers, Diagnosis Related Group; Outlier, Diagnostic-Related Group; Outlier, Diagnosis-Related Group; Outlier, DRG; Diagnostic-Related Group Outlier; Diagnostic Related Group Outliers; Diagnosis-Related Group Outlier; Diagnosis Related Group Outliers; DRG Outlier; Outliers, Diagnosis-Related Group; Diagnostic-Related Group Outliers

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