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Testimony: Moving Forward from the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) System (Senate Finance, May 14, 2013) |
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Comment letter: Comprehensive End-Stage Renal Disease Care model (May 10, 2013) |
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Moving forward from the sustainable growth rate (SGR) system (Update, April 10, 2013) |
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Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy (March 2013) Please click under "View table of contents" to see links to the report and online appendixes. To view the report directly, click under "View document". |
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Executive summary (March 2013 report) |
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Appendixes: Physician and other health professional services (Online-only appendixes for Chapter 4, March 2013 report) |
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Ambulatory surgical center services (Chapter 5, March 2013 report) |
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Outpatient dialysis services (Chapter 6, March 2013 report) |
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Appendixes: Outpatient dialysis services (Online-only appendixes for Chapter 6, March 2013 report) |
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Moving forward from the sustainable growth rate (SGR) system (Appendix B, March 2013 report) |
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Testimony: Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy (Ways and Means, March 15, 2013) |
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Testimony: Moving Forward from the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) System (Energy and Commerce, February 14, 2013) |
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Comment letter: CMS's proposed rule entitled: Medicare program; end-stage renal disease prospective payment system, quality incentive program, and bad debt reductions for all Medicare providers (August 31, 2012) |
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Comment letter: CMS's proposed rule entitled: Hospital outpatient prospective and ambulatory surgical center payment systems; electronic reporting pilot; inpatient rehabilitation facilities quality reporting program; quality improvement organization regulations (August 31, 2012) |
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Comment letter: CMS's proposed rule entitled: Medicare program; payment policies under the physician fee schedule, DME face-to-face encounters, elimination of the requirement for termination of non-random prepayment complex medical review, and other revisions to Part B for CY 2013 (August 31, 2012) |
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A Data Book: Health Care Spending and the Medicare Program (June 2012) |
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National health care and Medicare spending |
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Dual-eligible beneficiaries |
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Quality of care in the Medicare program |
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Ambulatory care |
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Contractor report: Collecting Data on Physician Services and Hours Worked (August 2012) A report by staff from University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Division of Health Policy and Management for the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission |
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Report to the Congress: Medicare and the Health Care Delivery System (June 2012) Please click under "View table of contents" to see links to the report and online appendixes. To view the report directly, click under "View document". |
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Review of CMS’s preliminary estimate of the 2013 update for physician and other professional services (Appendix A, June 2012 report) |
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Executive summary (June 2012 report) |
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Medicare payment basics: Ambulatory surgical center services payment system (October 10, 2012) |
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Medicare payment basics: Outpatient dialysis services payment system (September 30, 2012) |
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Medicare payment basics: Outpatient hospital services payment system (October 10, 2012) |
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Medicare payment basics: Physician and other health professionals payment system (October 10, 2012) |
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Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy (March 2012) Please click under "View table of contents" to see links to the report and online appendixes. To view the report directly, click under "View document". |
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Executive summary (March 2012 report) |
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Hospital inpatient and outpatient services (Chapter 3, March 2012 report) |
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Physician and other health professional services (Chapter 4, March 2012 report) |
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Appendixes: Physician and other health professional services (Online-only appendixes for Chapter 4, March 2012 report) |
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Ambulatory surgical center services (Chapter 5, March 2012 report) |
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Outpatient dialysis services (Chapter 6, March 2012 report) |
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Appendixes: Outpatient dialysis services (Online-only appendixes for Chapter 6, March 2012 report) |
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Moving forward from the sustainable growth rate (SGR) system (Appendix B, March 2012 report) |
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Errata sheet: Corrected version of Figure 4-1, page 95 of March 2012 report (printed copy) |
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Comment letter: CMS's proposed rule entitled: Medicare, Medicaid, Children's Health Insurance Programs; Transparency reports and reporting of physician ownership or investment interests (February 7, 2012) |
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Contractor report: Methodological Concerns with the Medicare RBRVS Payment System and Recommendations for Additional Study (December 2011) A report by staff from RTI International for the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission |
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Contractor report: Improving the Accuracy of Time in the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule: Feasibility of Using Extant Data and of Collecting Primary Data (December 2011) A report by staff from RTI International for the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission |
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Moving forward from the sustainable growth rate (SGR) system (October 14, 2011) |
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Comment letter: CMS's proposed rule entitled: Medicare Program; Changes to the End-Stage Renal Disease Prospective Payment System for CY 2012, End-Stage Renal Disease Quality Incentive Program for PY 2013 and PY 2014; Ambulance Fee Schedule; and Durable Medical Equipment (August 30, 2011) |
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Comment letter: CMS's proposed rule entitled: Medicare Program; Payment Policies Under the Physician Fee Schedule and Other Revisions to Part B for CY 2012 (August 30, 2011) |
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Comment letter: CMS's proposed rule entitled: Medicare and Medicaid Programs: Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment; Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment; Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program; Physician Self-Referral; and Provider Agreement Regulations on Patient Notification Requirements (August 30, 2011) |
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Comment letter: Department of Health and Human Services' Report to Congress: Medicare Ambulatory Surgical Center Value-Based Purchasing Implementation Plan (August 30, 2011) |
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Comment letter: CMS’s proposed rule entitled Medicare Program; Five-Year Review of Work Relative Value Units Under the Physician Fee Schedule (July 22, 2011) |
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Report to the Congress: Medicare and the Health Care Delivery System (June 2011) Please click under "View table of contents" to see links to the report and individual chapters. To view the report directly, click under "View document". |
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Review of CMS's preliminary estimate of the 2012 update for physician and other professional services (Appendix A, June 2011 report) |
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Fact sheet: MedPAC comment letter on Medicare Shared Savings Program for Accountable Care Organizations proposed rule (June 6, 2011) |
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Comment letter: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Medicare Shared Savings Program - Accountable Care Organizations proposed rule (June 6, 2011) |
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Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy (March 2011) Please click under "View table of contents" to see links to the report and online appendixes. To view the report directly, click under "View document". |
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Hospital inpatient and outpatient services (Chapter 3, March 2011 report) |
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Physician and other health professional services (Chapter 4, March 2011 report) |
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Appendixes: Physician and other health professional services (Online-only appendixes for Chapter 4, March 2011 report) |
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Ambulatory surgical centers (Chapter 5, March 2011 report) |
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Outpatient dialysis services (Chapter 6, March 2011 report) |
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Testimony: Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy (Ways and Means, March 15, 2011) Testimony before the Subcommittee on Health, Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives |
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Contractor report: Exploring Alternative Approaches to Valuing Physician Services (June 2011) A report prepared for the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission by staff from the University of Minnesota, Division of Health Policy and Management |
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Contractor report: Retainer-Based Physicians: Characteristics, Impact, and Policy Considerations (October 2010) A study conducted for the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission by staff from NORC at the University of Chicago and Georgetown University |
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Contractor report: Site Visits to Selected Institutions With Innovations In Residency Training (October 2010) A study conducted for the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission by staff from RAND |
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Comment Letter: CMS's proposed rule entitled Medicare Program; End-stage renal disease quality incentive (Sep 23, 2010) |
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Comment letter: CMS's proposed Changes to the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and CY 2011 Payment Rates; Proposed Changes to the Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment System and CY 2011 Payment Rates; Proposed Changes to Payments to Hospitals for Certain Inpatient Hospital Services and for Graduate Medical Education Costs; and Proposed Changes to Physician Self-Referral Rules and Related Changes to Provider Agreement Regulations (Aug 30, 2010) Comment letter |
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Testimony: Report to the Congress: Aligning Incentives in Medicare (Energy and Commerce, June 23, 2010) U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Energy and Commerce |
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Report to the Congress: Aligning Incentives in Medicare (June 2010) Please click under "View table of contents" to see a list of chapters with links to individual chapter files. To view the entire report (287 pages), click under "View document". |
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Graduate medical education financing: Focusing on educational priorities (Chapter 4, June 2010 report) |
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Shared decision making and its implications for Medicare (Chapter 7, June 2010 report) |
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Addressing the growth of ancillary services in physicians' offices (Chapter 8, June 2010 report) |
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Review of CMS's preliminary estimate of the physician update for 2011 (Appendix A, June 2010 report) |
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Contractor report: Findings from Beneficiary and Physician Focus Groups (May 2010) A study conducted for the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission by staff from NORC at the University of Chicago and from Georgetown University |
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Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy (March 2010) Please click under "View table of contents" to see a list of chapters with links to individual chapter files. To view the entire report (380 pages), click under "View document". |
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Physician services (Chapter 2B, March 2010 report) |
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Appendixes: Physician services (Online-only appendixes for Chapter 2B, March 2010 report) |
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Ambulatory surgical centers (Chapter 2C, March 2010 report) |
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Appendixes: Ambulatory surgical centers (Online-only appendixes for Chapter 2C, March 2010 report) |
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Outpatient dialysis services (Chapter 2D, March 2010 report) |
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Appendixes: Outpatient dialysis services (Online-only appendixes for Chapter 2D, March 2010 report) |
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Comment Letter: CMS proposed rule entitled Medicare Program; End-stage renal disease prospective payment system (Dec 16, 2009) |
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Comment letter: CMS's proposed rule entitled: Medicare Program; Revisions to payment policies under the physician fee schedule and other revisions to Part B for CY 2010 (August 31, 2009) |
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Comment letter RE: CMS’s proposed rule entitled: Proposed Changes to the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and Calendar Year 2010 Payment Rates; Proposed Changes to the Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment System and CY 2010 Payment Rates |
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Contractor report: How Are Residency Programs Preparing Our 21st Century Internists? (July 2009) A study conducted for the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission by staff from RAND Health |
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Testimony: Reforming the Health Care Delivery System (Energy and Commerce, June 25, 2009) U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Energy and Commerce |
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Report to the Congress: Improving Incentives in the Medicare Program (June 2009) Please click under "View table of contents" to see a list of chapters with links to individual chapter files. To view the entire report (299 pages), click under "View document". |
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Medical education in the United States: Supporting long-term delivery system reforms (Chapter 1, June 2009 report) |
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Accountable care organizations (Chapter 2, June 2009 report) |
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Physician resource use measurement (Chapter 3, June 2009 report) |
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Impact of physician self-referral on use of imaging services within an episode (Chapter 4, June 2009 report) |
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Review of CMS's preliminary estimate of the physician update for 2010 (Appendix A, June 2009 report) |
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Contractor report: The Use of an Episode Grouper for Physician Profiling in Medicare: A Preliminary Investigation (June 2009) A study conducted for the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission by staff from Thomson Healthcare |
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Contractor report: Multiple Attribution of Episodes for Physician Profiling in Medicare: A Preliminary Investigation (June 2009) A study conducted for the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission by staff from Thomson Reuters Healthcare |
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New York Times correction |
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Testimony: Reforming the Health Care Delivery System (Ways and Means, April 1, 2009) U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Ways and Means |
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Testimony: Reforming the Health Care Delivery System (Energy and Commerce, March 10, 2009) U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Energy and Commerce |
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Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy (March 2009) Please click under "View table of contents" to see a list of chapters with links to individual chapter files. To view the entire report (424 pages), click under "View document". |
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Physician services and ambulatory surgical centers (Chapter 2B, March 2009 report) |
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Outpatient dialysis services (Chapter 2C, March 2009 report) |
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Public reporting of physicians' financial relationships (Chapter 5, March 2009 report) |
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Executive summary (March 2009 report) |
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Comment Letter: To CMS Dr. Thomas Valuck Re: Physician VBP Program Issues Paper Comments (Dec 19,2008) Physician VBP Program Issues Paper Comments |
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Report to the Congress: Reforming the Delivery System (June 2008) Please click under "View table of contents" to see a list of chapters with links to individual chapter files. To view the entire report (288 pages), click under "View document". |
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Comment letter: CMS’s proposed rule entitled Medicare Program; Proposed Changes to the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems and fiscal year 2009 Rates; Proposed Changes to Disclosure of Physician Ownership in Hospitals and Physician Self-Referral Rules; Proposed Collection of Information Regarding Financial Relationships Between Hospitals and Physicians (June 10, 2008) |
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Promoting the use of primary care (Chapter 2, June 2008 report) |
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Examining hospital-physician collaborative relationships (Chapter 3, June 2008 report) |
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Public reporting of physicians' financial relationships (Chapter 6, June 2008 report) |
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Review of CMS's preliminary estimate of the physician update for 2009 (Appendix A, June 2008 report) |
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Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy (March 2008) Please click under "View table of contents" to see a list of chapters with links to individual chapter files. To view the entire report (376 pages), click under "View document". |
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Physician services (Chapter 2B, March 2008 report) |
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Outpatient dialysis services (Chapter 2C, March 2008 report) |
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Contractor report: Health Plans' Use of Physician Resource Use and Quality Measures (October 2007) A study conducted for the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission by Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. |
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Comment letter: CMS’s proposed rule entitled Proposed Changes to the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and Calendar Year 2008 Payment Rates; Proposed Changes to the ASC Payment System and CY 2008 Payment Rates (September 14, 2007) |
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Comment letter: CMS's proposed rule entitled Medicare program; Revisions to payment policies under the physician fee schedule, and other Part B payment policies for CY 2008 (August 30, 2007) |
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Report to the Congress: Promoting Greater Efficiency in Medicare (June 2007) Please click under "View table of contents" to see a list of chapters with links to individual chapter files. To view the entire report (297 pages), click under "View document". |
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Analysis of changes to physicians' practice expense payments (Chapter 9, June 2007 report) |
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Review of CMS's preliminary estimate of the physician update for 2008 (Appendix A, June 2007 report) |
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Testimony: Payments to Selected Fee-For-Service Providers (May 15, 2007) U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Health |
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Testimony: Options to Improve Medicare's Payments to Physicians (May 10, 2007) U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Health |
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Testimony: Assessing Alternatives to the Sustainable Growth Rate System (Ways and Means, March 6, 2007) U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Health |
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Testimony: Assessing Alternatives to the Sustainable Growth Rate System (Energy and Commerce, March 6, 2007) U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Health |
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Testimony: Assessing Alternatives to the Sustainable Growth Rate System (Energy and Commerce, March 6, 2007) U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Health |
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Testimony: Assessing Alternatives to the Sustainable Growth Rate System (Ways and Means, March 6, 2007) U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Health |
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Contractor report: The extended hospital medical staff: Multi-specialty group practice for all? (March 1, 2007) |
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Report to the Congress: Assessing Alternatives to the Sustainable Growth Rate System (March 1, 2007) |
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Testimony: Assessing Alternatives to the Sustainable Growth Rate System (March 1, 2007) U.S. Senate, Committee on Finance |
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Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy (March 2007) |
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Physician services (Chapter 2B, March 2007 report) |
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Outpatient dialysis services (Chapter 2C, March 2007 report) |
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Comment letter: CMS's proposed rule entitled: Medicare program; Revisions to payment policies under the physician fee schedule for calendar year 2007 and other changes to payment under Part B (October 11, 2006) |
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Comment letter: CMS's proposed rule entitled: Proposed changes to the hospital outpatient PPS and CY 2007 rates; proposed CY 2007 update to the ASC covered procedures list; and proposed changes to the ASC payment system and CY 2008 payment rates (October 10, 2006) |
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Contractor report: Further Analyses of Medicare Procedures Provided in Multiple Ambulatory Settings (final report, October 2006) A study conducted for the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission by RAND Health. |
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Contractor report: Further Analyses of Medicare Procedures Provided in Multiple Ambulatory Settings (introduction, October 2006) Introduction to a study conducted for the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission by RAND Health. |
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Comment letter: CMS's proposed rule entitled Medicare program; Five-year review of work relative value units under the physician fee schedule and proposed changes to the practice expense methodology (August 18, 2006) |
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Report to the Congress: Physician-Owned Specialty Hospitals Revisited (August 2006) |
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Testimony: Medicare payment to physicians (July 25, 2006) U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Health |
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Testimony: MedPAC Recommendations on Imaging Services (July 18, 2006) U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Health |
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Report to the Congress: Increasing the Value of Medicare (June 2006) Please click under "View table of contents" to see a list of chapters with links to individual chapter files. To view the entire report (290 pages), click under "View document". |
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Using episode groupers to assess physician resource use (Chapter 1, June 2006 report) |
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Care coordination in fee-for-service Medicare (Chapter 2, June 2006 report) |
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Keeping physicians' practice expense payment rates up to date (Chapter 4, June 2006 report) |
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Toward better value in purchasing outpatient therapy services (Chapter 6, June 2006 report) |
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Review of CMS's preliminary estimate of the physician update for 2007 (Appendix A, June 2006 report) |
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Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy (March 2006) Please click under "View table of contents" to see a list of chapters with links to individual chapter files. To view the entire report (284 pages), click under "View document". |
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Physician services (Chapter 2B, March 2006 report) |
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Outpatient dialysis services (Chapter 2C, March 2006 report) |
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Reviewing the work relative values of physician fee schedule services (Chapter 3, March 2006 report) |
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Report to the Congress: Effects of Medicare Payment Changes on Oncology Services (January 2006) |
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Contractor report: Medicare Ambulatory Care Indicators for the Elderly: Refinement of the Access to Care for the Elderly Project Indicators (January, 2006) A study conducted for the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission by MagnaCare Health Services Improvement, Inc. |
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Medicare basics: Outpatient therapy services (December 28, 2005) |
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Testimony: Medicare payment to physicians (November 17, 2005) U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Health
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Comment letter: CMS’s proposed rule entitled: Medicare Program; Revisions to Payment Policies under the Physician Fee Schedule for Calendar Year 2006 (September 30, 2005) |
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Report to the Congress: Issues in a Modernized Medicare Program (June 2005) Please click under "View table of contents" to see a list of chapters with links to individual chapter files. To view the entire report (246 pages), click under "View document". |
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Contractor report: Medicare Payment for Hospital Outpatient Services: A Historical Review of Policy Options (June 2005) A study conducted for the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission by RAND Health. |
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Payment for dialysis (Chapter 4, June 2005 report) |
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Payment for pharmacy handling costs in hospital outpatient departments (Chapter 6, June 2005 report |
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Review of CMS's preliminary estimate of the physician update for 2006 (Chapter 9, June 2005 report) |
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Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy (March 2005) Please click under "View table of contents" to see a list of chapters with links to individual chapter files. To view the entire report, click under "View document". |
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Contractor report: Effects of the Implementation of Resource-Based Practice Expense Relative Value Units Under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, 1998-2002 (March 2005) A study conducted by The Urban Institute for the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission |
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Physician services (Chapter 2B, March 2005 report) |
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Outpatient dialysis services (Chapter 2E, March 2005 report) |
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Testimony: Medicare payments to physicians (February 10, 2005) Committee on Ways & Means |
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Report to the Congress: Certified Registered Nurse First Assistants (December 2004) |
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Report to the Congress: Cardiothoracic Surgeons Practice Expense (December 2004) |
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Report to the Congress: Eliminating Physician Referrals to Physical Therapy (December 2004) |
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Report to the Congress: Growth in the Volume of Physician Services (December 2004) |
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Report to the Congress: Impact of Resource-Based Practice Expense Payments for Physician Services (December 2004) |
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Contractor report: Services Provided in Multiple Ambulatory Settings: A Review of the Literature for Selected Procedures (November 2004) A study conducted for the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission by RAND Health. |
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Contractor report: Services Provided in Multiple Ambulatory Settings: A Comparison of Selected Procedures (November 2004) A study conducted for the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission by RAND Health. |
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Contractor report: Services provided in multiple ambulatory settings: A comparison of selected procedures (introduction, November 2004) Introduction to a study for the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission by RAND Health. |
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Comment letter: CMS's proposed rule on the Outpatient Prospective Payment System (October 7, 2004) |
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Comment letter: CMS's proposed policy on erythropoietin (October 6, 2004) |
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Comment letter: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed rule to implement provisions of the MMA that refines the payment method for ESRD services (September 24, 2004) |
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Report to the Congress: New Approaches in Medicare (June 2004) Please click under "View table of contents" to see a list of chapters with links to individual chapter files. To view the entire report, click under "View document". |
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The Medicare Modernization Act and chronic care improvement (Chapter 2, June 2004 report) |
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Review of CMS's preliminary estimate of the physician update for 2005 (Appendix A, June 2004 report) |
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Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy (March 2004) Please click under "View table of contents" to see a list of chapters with links to individual chapter files. To view the entire report, click under "View document". |
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Outpatient dialysis services: Assessing payment adequacy and updating payments (Chapter 3E, March 2004 report) |
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Physician services: Assessing payment adequacy and updating payments (Chapter 3B, March 2004 report) |
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Ambulatory surgical center services: Assessing payment adequacy and updating payments (Chapter 3F, March 2004 report) |
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Report to the Congress: Impact of the resident caps on the supply of geriatricians (November 13, 2003) |
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Report to the Congress: Modernizing the outpatient dialysis payment system (October 23, 2003) |
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Comment letter: Study by the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ) on determinants of increases in Medicare expenditure for physician services (October 15, 2003) |
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Comment letter: Revisions to payment policies under the physician fee schedule for calendar year 2004 (October 6, 2003) |
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Contractor report: Medicare and private payers' payment rates to physicians (summary, August 2003) Summary of two studies conducted for MedPAC by Direct Research, LLC and by Dyckman & Associates. |
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Contractor report: Explaining differences between the two MedPAC-sponsored analyses of private insurers' physician fees (August, 2003) |
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Contractor report: Medicare Physician Payment Rates Compared to Rates Paid by the Average Private Insurer, 1999-2001 (August 2003) A study conducted for the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission by Direct Research, LLC. |
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Contractor report: Survey of Health Plans Concerning Physician Fees and Payment Methodology (August 2003) A study conducted for the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission by Dyckman & Associates. |
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Report to the Congress: Variation and Innovation in Medicare (June 2003) Please click under "View table of contents" to see a list of chapters with links to individual chapter files. To view the entire report, click under "View document". |
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Quality of dialysis care and providers' costs (Chapter 6, June 2003 report) |
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Growth and variation in use of physician services (Chapter 4, June 2003 report) |
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Review of CMS's estimate of the payment update for physician services (Appendix A, June 2003 report) |
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Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy (March 2003) Please click under "View table of contents" to see a list of chapters with links to individual chapter files. To view the entire report, click under "View document". |
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Contractor report: 2002 Survey of Physicians About the Medicare Program (March 2003) A study conducted for the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission by the Project HOPE Center for Health Affairs. |
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Contractor report: 2002 Survey of Physicians About the Medicare Program (summary, March 2003) Summary of a study conducted for the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission by the Project HOPE Center for Health Affairs. |
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Assessing payment adequacy and updating payments for physician services (Chapter 2B, March 2003 report) |
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Assessing payment adequacy and updating payments for outpatient dialysis services (Chapter 2E, March 2003 report) |
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Assessing payment adequacy and updating payments for ambulatory surgical center services (Chapter 2F, March 2003 report) |
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Medicare Payment to Advanced Practice Nurses and Physician Assistants (June 2002) |
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Medicare Coverage of Nonphysician Practitioners (June 2002) |
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Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy (March 2002) Please click under "View table of contents" to see a list of chapters with links to individual chapter files. To view the entire report, click under "View document". |
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Chapter 2C: Physician services |
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Chapter 2F: Outpatient dialysis services |
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Chapter 3: Paying for new technology in the outpatient prospective payment system |
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Report to the Congress: Medicare in Rural America (June 2001) Please click under "View table of contents" to see a list of chapters with links to individual chapter files. To view the entire report, click under "View document". |
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Assessing payment for outpatient hospital care in rural areas (Chapter 5, June 2001 report) |
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Reviewing the estimated payment update for physician services (Chapter 8, June 2001 report) |
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Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy (March 2001) Please click under "View table of contents" to see a list of chapters with links to individual chapter files. To view the entire report, click under "View document". |
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Chapter 2: Updating payments for physician services and for care provided in hospital outpatient departments |
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Chapter 8: End-stage renal disease payment policies in traditional Medicare |
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