to control the costs of care, and to remain prepared for changes in reimbursement methodologies, health care organizations are beginning to analyze their casemix and their costs per case of providing care. Increasing importance is thus assigned to the search for valid casemix measures and to the construction of information systems which will support casemix investigations. After two years of information systems development, The Connecticut Hospice has begun its search for casemix measures that are applicable to the care of the dying. In this paper, we present our findings on the application of one casemix measure - the DRG - in the specialized area of nonsurgical care of the terminally ill.