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Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy (March 2009)

• Context for Medicare payment policy (Chapter 1, March 2009 report)

• Assessing payment adequacy and updating payments in fee-for-service Medicare (Chapter 2, March 2009 report)

• Hospital inpatient and outpatient services (Chapter 2A, March 2009 report)

• Physician services and ambulatory surgical centers (Chapter 2B, March 2009 report)

• Outpatient dialysis services (Chapter 2C, March 2009 report)

• Skilled nursing facility services (Chapter 2D, March 2009 report)

• Home health services (Chapter 2E, March 2009 report)

• Inpatient rehabilitation facility services (Chapter 2F, March 2009 report)

• Long-term care hospital services (Chapter 2G, March 2009 report)

• The Medicare Advantage program (Chapter 3, March 2009 report)

• A status report on Part D for 2009 (Chapter 4, March 2009 report)

• Public reporting of physicians' financial relationships (Chapter 5, March 2009 report)

• Reforming Medicare's hospice benefit (Chapter 6, March 2009 report)

• Commissioners' voting on recommendations (Appendix A, March 2009 report)

• Executive summary (March 2009 report)