Inpatient Acute Care Hospitals Are Reimbursed a Single Total Payment

Inpatient acute care hospitals are reimbursed a single total payment for each patient discharge based on a(n) ________ code, which assumes that patients with the same sort of diagnoses require about the same length of stay and use approximately the same amount of resources.

A) ICD-9-CM
B) HCPCS
C) CPT-4
D) DRG
E) ABC