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Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy (March 2005)

• At a crossroads in Medicare: Assessing payment adequacy and moving toward value-based purchasing (Chapter 1, March 2005 report)

• Assessing payment adequacy and updating payments in fee-for-service Medicare (Chapter 2, March 2005 report)

• Hospital inpatient and outpatient services (Chapter 2A, March 2005 report)

• Physician services (Chapter 2B, March 2005 report)

• Skilled nursing facility services (Chapter 2C, March 2005 report)

• Home health services (Chapter 2D, March 2005 report)

• Outpatient dialysis services (Chapter 2E, March 2005 report)

• Issues in physician payment policy (Chapter 3, March 2005 report)

• Strategies to improve care: Pay for performance and information technology (Chapter 4, March 2005 report)

• Commissioners’ voting on recommendations