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MS-DRG Classifications and Software.
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. "MS-DRG Classifications and Software." Annual IPPS rulemaking and DRG overview documentation. https://www.cms.gov/medicare/payment/prospective-payment-systems
Why this matters here
CMS MS-DRG classifications group inpatient stays for prospective payment so financing can travel across clinical variation. When Incentives Become the Moral Language pairs that translation with readmission measures: each answers a coordination problem until the sentence everyone can repeat becomes more authoritative than the bedside facts it leaves out.
