1. to join or attach by stitches. 2. to make, repair, etc., by such means: She sewed her own wedding gown. 3. to enclose or secure with stitches: to sew flour in a bag. 4. to close (a hole, wound, etc.) by means of stitches (usu. fol. by up). 5. to work with a needle and thread or with a sewing machine.
6. Proposing the scope of DRGs is new but beneficial. Each hospital will have a lot of say in terms of its scope and approach to bundled payments, such as which DRGs will be included in its bundled payments, Ms. Baggot says.
Transfer DRG Services â Payment Analysis of Medicare Discharges to Post-Acute Care. When a Medicare patient is discharged from a hospital for a post-acute care transfer, the hospital receives a prorated DRG payment (Transfer DRG). Medicare pays the hospital based on the Transfer DRG code used for the patient at his/her discharge. If the patient did not actually receive the post-acute care as instructed, the hospital should have been entitled to the full DRG payment from Medicare instead of the prorated amount.