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Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy (March 1999)

• A framework for considering Medicare payment policy issues (Chapter 1, March 1999 report)

• Medicare+Choice: A program in transition (Chapter 2, March 1999 report)

• Updating and reforming prospective payment for hospital inpatient care (Chapter 3, March 1999 report)

• Providers exempt from the acute care prospective payment system (Chapter 4, March 1999 report)

• Post-acute care providers: Moving toward prospective payment (Chapter 5, March 1999 report)

• Changing Medicare's payment systems for ambulatory care facilities (Chapter 6, March 1999 report)

• Continuing reform of Medicare payment to physicians (Chapter 7, March 1999 report)

• Updating the composite rate for outpatient dialysis services (Chapter 8, March 1999 report)

• Determining Medicare+Choice payment rates (Appendix A, March 1999 report)

• Determining risk scores under the interim risk adjustment system for Medicare+Choice (Appendix B, March 1999 report)

• Scientific and technological advances for inpatient hospital services (Appendix C, March 1999 report)

• Analysis of hospital productivity and product change (Appendix D, March 1999 report)

• Simulation of conversion factor updates for physician services (Appendix E, March 1999 report)