For Hospital Medicine

For Hospital Medicine

Admissions, subsequent visits, discharges, and time: hospital coding moved to the same MDM grid in 2023, and the levels are more reachable than most clinicians code.

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New tool: Complication and Readmission Navigator. Pneumonia, heart failure, heart attack, COPD, sepsis, and inpatient safety events: which principal diagnoses CMS measures, the nearby diagnoses that land on the other side, and the comorbidities to document.

The bottom line
Same MDM grid as clinic; the levels are more reachable than most code.
The hospitalist guide
Admission through discharge with current 2026 values: 1.63, 2.60, 3.50 on admits and the discharge codes most groups undercode.
The same grid as clinic
Hospital levels use the identical MDM columns. What counts as data and risk on rounds, in plain English.
Quick verdicts
One screen answers for the questions that come up on rounds, each with the missing phrase.