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.
The amountpaid will depend primarily on the Diagnosis Related Group (DRG) into which the pa-tient is classified. The implementation of per-case payment has rested on the availabili-ty of an acceptable method of measuring a hospitalâs case mix. DRGs are just one ofseveral approaches to measuring hospital case mix.