A bill to require the Administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration and the Prospective Payment Assessment Commission to research and develop a method for taking into account complications and morbidity variations among discharges in making payments for inpatient hospital services under the medicare DRG-payment system.

Requires the Prospective Payment Assessment Commission and the Administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration to: (1) research and develop a method which accounts for complications and morbidity variations among diagnosis-related groups in determining payments for inpatient hospital services under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act; and (2) report the results to the Congress by the close of FY 1987.