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Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy (March 2013)

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Executive summary (March 2013 report)

Hospital inpatient and outpatient services (Chapter 3, March 2013 report)

Physician and other health professional services (Chapter 4, March 2013 report)

Ambulatory surgical center services (Chapter 5, March 2013 report)

Outpatient dialysis services (Chapter 6, March 2013 report)

Skilled nursing facility services (Chapter 8, March 2013 report)

Home health care services (Chapter 9, March 2013 report)

Inpatient rehabilitation facility services (Chapter 10, March 2013 report)

Long-term care hospital services (Chapter 11, March 2013 report)

Hospice services (Chapter 12, March 2013 report)

The Medicare Advantage program: Status report (Chapter 13, March 2013 report)

Medicare Advantage special needs plans (Chapter 14, March 2013 report)

Status report on Part D (Chapter 15, March 2013 report)

Testimony: Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy (Ways and Means, March 15, 2013)

A Data Book: Health Care Spending and the Medicare Program (June 2012)

Quality of care in the Medicare program

Comment letter: CMS's proposed rule on acute and long-term care hospitals (June 22, 2012)

Testimony: Report to the Congress: Medicare and the Health Care Delivery System (Ways and Means, June 19, 2012)

Report to the Congress: Medicare and the Health Care Delivery System (June 2012)

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Care coordination in fee-for-service Medicare (Chapter 2, June 2012 report)

Appendixes: Care coordination in fee-for-service Medicare (Online-only appendixes for Chapter 2, June 2012 report)

Executive summary (June 2012 report)

Contractor report: Provider-level risk-adjusted quality measurement for inpatient rehabilitation facilities (July 2012)

A report by staff from RAND Health for the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission

Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy (March 2012)

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Executive summary (March 2012 report)

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)

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)

Comment letter: Department of Health and Human Services' Report to Congress: Medicare Ambulatory Surgical Center Value-Based Purchasing Implementation Plan (August 30, 2011)

Fact sheet: MedPAC comment letter on Medicare Shared Savings Program for Accountable Care Organizations proposed rule (June 6, 2011)

Comment letter: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Medicare Shared Savings Program - Accountable Care Organizations proposed rule (June 6, 2011)

Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy (March 2011)

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Appendixes: Physician and other health professional services (Online-only appendixes for Chapter 4, March 2011 report)

The Medicare Advantage program: Status report (Chapter 12, March 2011 report)

Appendixes: The Medicare Advantage program (Online-only appendixes for Chapter 12, March 2011 report)

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

Comment letter: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed rule entitled Medicare Program; Hospital Inpatient Value-Based Purchasing Program (March 4, 2011)

Comment on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Request for Information Regarding Accountable Care Organizations and the Medicare Shared Savings Program (November 22, 2010)

Comment Letter: CMS's proposed rule entitled Medicare Program; End-stage renal disease quality incentive (Sep 23, 2010)

Contractor report: Toward Meaningful Quality and Performance Measures in Part D (October 2010)

A study conducted for the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission by staff from NORC at the University of Chicago, Georgetown University, and Social and Scientific Systems, Inc.

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

Report to the Congress: Aligning Incentives in Medicare (June 2010)

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Enhancing Medicare's ability to innovate (Chapter 1, June 2010 report)

Appendixes: Enhancing Medicare's ability to innovate (Online-only appendixes for Chapter 1, June 2010 report)

Medicare's role in supporting and motivating quality improvement (Chapter 3, June 2010 report)

Appendixes: Medicare's role in supporting and motivating quality improvment (Online-only appendixes for Chapter 3, June 2010 report)

Coordinating the care of dual-eligible beneficiaries (Chapter 5, June 2010 report)

Appendixes: Coordinating the care of dual-eligible beneficiaries (Online-only appendixes for Chapter 5, June 2010 report)

Shared decision making and its implications for Medicare (Chapter 7, June 2010 report)

Contractor report: Updates to SNF Quality Measures Risk Adjustment (June 2010)

A study conducted for the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission by staff from the Division of Health Care Policy and Research, University of Colorado Denver

Comment letter: CMS's proposed rule entitled: Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Electronic Health Record Incentive Program

Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy (March 2010)

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Report on comparing quality among Medicare Advantage plans and between Medicare Advantage and fee-for-service Medicare (Chapter 6, March 2010 report)

Appendixes: Report on comparing quality among Medicare Advantage plans and between Medicare Advantage and fee-for-service Medicare (Online-only appendixes for Chapter 6, March 2010 report)

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)

Comment letter: HIT Policy Committee Meaningful Use (June 26, 2009)

Testimony: Reforming the Health Care Delivery System (Energy and Commerce, June 25, 2009)

U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Energy and Commerce

Report to the Congress: Improving Incentives in the Medicare Program (June 2009)

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Accountable care organizations (Chapter 2, June 2009 report)

Improving Medicare chronic care demonstration programs: Section 150 of the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 report (Chapter 8, June 2009 report)

Testimony: Reforming the Health Care Delivery System (Ways and Means, April 1, 2009)

U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Ways and Means

Testimony: Reforming the Health Care Delivery System (Energy and Commerce, March 10, 2009)

U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Energy and Commerce

Comment letter: NCQA and CMS's proposed Special Needs Plan Requirements (November 25, 2008)

Report to the Congress: Reforming the Delivery System (June 2008)

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Producing comparative-effectiveness information (Chapter 5, June 2008 report)

Comment letter: Department of Health and Human Services Report to Congress: Plan to Implement a Medicare Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program (April 1, 2008)

Contractor report: Creating a Center for Evidence-Based Medicine (February 2008)

A study conducted for the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission by staff from the American Institutes for Research

Comment letter: NCQA and CMS's proposed Special Needs Plan Requirements (January 18, 2008)

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.

Report to the Congress: Promoting Greater Efficiency in Medicare (June 2007)

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Value-based purchasing: Pay for performance in home health care (Chapter 4, June 2007 report)

Testimony: Improving Medicare Efficiency and Value (April 18, 2007)

U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Health

Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy (March 2007)

Comment letter: Coverage with evidence development (February 8, 2007)

Contractor report: Small Patient Population and Low Frequency Event Effects on the Stability of SNF Quality Measures (September 2006)

A study conducted for the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission by the Division of Health Care Policy and Research, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center

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

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

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

Comment letter: Quality sections of CMS's proposed rule entitled: Medicare Program; Proposed Changes to the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System and Fiscal Year 2007 Rates (June 2, 2006)

Testimony: Pay for performance in Medicare (July 27, 2005)

U.S. Senate, Committee on Finance

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

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

Report to the Congress: New Approaches in Medicare (June 2004)

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The Medicare Modernization Act and chronic care improvement (Chapter 2, June 2004 report)

Testimony: Improving quality through Medicare payment policy (March 18, 2004)

Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy (March 2004)

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Contractor report: The Effect of the Prospective Payment System on Home Health Quality of Care (March 2004)

A study conducted for the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission by Outcome Concept Systems, Inc.

Quality of care for Medicare beneficiaries (Chapter 2, March 2004 report)

Report to the Congress: Variation and Innovation in Medicare (June 2003)

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Using incentives to improve the quality of care in Medicare (Chapter 7, June 2003 report)

Report to the Congress: Applying Quality Improvement Standards in Medicare (January 2002)

Report to the Congress: Medicare in Rural America (June 2001)

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Quality of care in rural areas (Chapter 3, June 2001 report)