Market snapshot

Alabama FY2024

Medicare IPPS · FY2024 (Oct–Sep) · as published by CMS

468 REVISION OF HIP OR KNEE REPLACEMENT WITHOUT CC/MCC MS-DRG

Scope Medicare Part A fee‑for‑service inpatient discharges at IPPS short‑term acute‑care hospitals located in Alabama, FY2024 (Oct–Sep). A discharge is a counted stay, not a procedure.

National scale 14,300 discharges (FY2024, Medicare Part A fee‑for‑service)

Category MDC 08 — Diseases and disorders of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue — as CMS classifies it in the IPPS Final Rule

Type Surgical — CMS's own type for this MS‑DRG

National rank 118th-largest of 767 MS-DRGs by FY2024 national discharges

CMS descriptor · Medicare IPPS inpatient claims, FY2024 (Oct–Sep)

Market overview

Discharges

242

counted stays, FY2024 · Medicare Part A fee‑for‑service only — no Medicare Advantage

Share of US

1.7%

of the 14,300 discharges CMS publishes nationally, FY2024

State markets

states and DC with a published FY2024 total in this MS-DRG

Disclosed at hospital level

69.4%

168 of the 242 published discharges appear in a hospital row — a floor; the rest are suppressed cells

How to read these figures

CMS excludes any hospital×DRG cell derived from 10 or fewer discharges, so a hospital missing from a ranking is suppressed, not absent — never a zero. Sums over disclosed rows are floors and are labeled as such; shares are computed only against the totals CMS publishes for the geography, which are not restricted to the disclosed rows. Maryland hospitals are paid under that state's all‑payer waiver, so their charge and payment figures do not compare with the rest.

Why there is no clinician ranking here

There is no clinician ranking for a DRG — that is a fact about the data, not a gap in it. MS‑DRG is an inpatient hospital classification: CMS publishes it at hospital level only, one row per hospital per DRG, with no clinician identifier anywhere in the file.

Clinician volume lives in a different dataset — Medicare Part B professional claims — and that is what ranks clinicians on procedure-code markets. The two do not join: attributing a clinician's professional claims to a hospital's discharges would manufacture a figure CMS does not publish, so Nevvi does not print one.

The Hospitals tab ranks the facilities that report these discharges. For clinician rankings, open a procedure-code market — the code search is the way in.

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