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Report to the Congress: Selected Medicare Issues (June 2000)
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Chapter 1: Medicare benficiaries and prescription drug programs
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Chapter 2: Assessing the design and impact of the hospital outpatient prospective payment system
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Chapter 3: Improving Medicare's payments for inpatient care and for teaching hospitals
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Chapter 4: Improving quality assurance for institutional providers
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Chapter 5: Financial performance and payment update for hospitals covered by prospective payment
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Chapter 6: Financial performance and payment update for facilities exempt from prospective payment
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Chapter 7: Reviewing the estimated payment update for physician services
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Appendix A: Elements of the prospective payment system for hospital outpatient services
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Appendix B: Distributional impact of options for case-mix refinement and teaching hospital payment
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Appendix C: A data book on hospital financial performance
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Appendix D: Methods and data for modeling the impact of inpatient payment provisions
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Appendix E: Overview of new hospital technologies for fiscal year 2001
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