Evolution of DRGs (2017 Update)
Editor’s Note: This update replaces the 2010 Practice Brief “The Evolution of DRGs.”
In the early 1970s Yale University developed diagnosis related groups (DRGs) to describe all types of patient care in an acute care hospital. The Yale system encompassed the Medi....
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