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Post-pay DRG review · St. Bernard Regional

Medicare Advantage Member MBR-51730962 DOS 14 Mar 2026 Paid 25 Mar 2026 · $5,504.60 Recovery window closes in 33 days
Eligibility: Active on the date of service Wellcare Medicare Advantage HMO · Louisiana Prior auth: Approved and matched Inpatient admission
Review closing letter

As paid vs. as it should have been

No variance
LnCodeDescription PaidShould be VarianceResult
1 DRG 690 Kidney and urinary tract infections without MCC
N39.0 · Urinary tract infection, site not specified
$5,504.60 $5,504.60 Correct

Determination

No defect in any layer

Reviewed with no variance. Every line was paid at the allowable on file.

How it was coded

Coded as documented
Billed As documented
Supported by the record As documented

Remedy: None — the claim was billed and priced as the record supports

Reviewed for level, severity and unit count. Nothing billed above what the record carries.

Prior authorization

Approved and matched
Authorization PA-2026-201700
Approved 2026-03-01
Valid 2026-03-01 → 2026-03-31
What was authorised Inpatient admission, authorised length of stay
What was billed Admission within the authorised window

Authorization on file and matched to the claim. Nothing billed beyond it.

Policy applied

Knowledge Center

Resolved as at the date of service, 14 Mar 2026 — not as at today.

CPP-047 Inpatient DRG validation — complications and comorbidities Supporting

Clinical validation of the complications and comorbidities reported on the admission

In force on 14 Mar 2026: v3.1 effective 2026-01-01

v3.1 was extracted from CPP-047_inpatient-drg-validation_v3.1.md. Passages are quoted only on the policy the finding rests on.

CPP-052 Present on admission and hospital-acquired conditions Supporting

Present-on-admission reporting for the secondary diagnoses

In force on 14 Mar 2026: v2.0 effective 2025-10-01

No source document for v2.0 is in the index, so this policy can be cited here but not quoted. Upload it.

CPP-080 Eligibility, enrolment and retroactive termination Supporting

Coverage on the date of service

In force on 14 Mar 2026: v6.1 effective 2026-01-01

v6.1 was extracted from CPP-080_eligibility-enrolment-retroactive-termination_v6.1.md. Passages are quoted only on the policy the finding rests on.

Source document

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837I_20260317_481293.edi
Availity clearinghouse · EDI 837I · received 17 Mar 2026 07:21 · claim control CCN-3113691360
Claim form As received EDI Remittance

How this was decided

Open the full trace

Walked through Inpatient DRG validation v2.7, signed off 2025-12-04.

Procedure SOP-DRG-01 — Institutional inpatient admissions priced by MS-DRG
Nodes walked 12
Model calls 0 — every node that resolved did so on a rule, a lookup or arithmetic
25 Mar 09:00 Claim paid, $5,504.60 released to facility Payment cycle
02 Apr 18:02 Selected for DRG validation Autonomize
09 Apr 10:20 Reviewed, DRG confirmed D. Mercer