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Report to the Congress: Increasing the Value of Medicare (June 2006)

• Using episode groupers to assess physician resource use (Chapter 1, June 2006 report)

• Care coordination in fee-for-service Medicare (Chapter 2, June 2006 report)

• Medicare's hospice benefit: Recent trends and consideration of payment system refinements (Chapter 3, June 2006 report)

• Keeping physicians' practice expense payment rates up to date (Chapter 4, June 2006 report)

• Adding quality measures in home health (Chapter 5, June 2006 report)

• Toward better value in purchasing outpatient therapy services (Chapter 6, June 2006 report)

• Part D plan offerings (Chapter 7, June 2006 report)

• How beneficiaries learned about the drug benefit and made plan choices (Chapter 8, June 2006 report)

• The Medicare Advantage program: Availability, benefits, and special needs plans (Chapter 9, June 2006 report)

• Medicare's use of clinical and cost-effectiveness information (Chapter 10, June 2006 report)

• Review of CMS's preliminary estimate of the physician update for 2007 (Appendix A, June 2006 report)