Sep 07, 2012 / Transcripts

September 2012 meeting transcript

Research Areas:

Ambulatory Care Settings, Beneficiaries and Coverage, Delivery System Reforms, Hospitals, Medicare Spending and Financing, Physicians And Other Health Professionals, Post-Acute Care, Quality, Regional Issues

Aug 31, 2012 / Comment Letters

MedPAC comment on CMS’s proposed rule entitled: Hospital outpatient prospective and ambulatory surgical center payment systems; electronic reporting pilot; inpatient rehabilitation facilities quality reporting program…

Research Areas:

Ambulatory Care Settings, Hospitals, Post-Acute Care, Quality

Aug 31, 2012 / Comment Letters

MedPAC comment on CMS’s proposed rule entitled: Medicare program; payment policies under the physician fee schedule…and other revisions to Part B for CY 2013

Research Areas:

Ambulatory Care Settings, Delivery System Reforms, Physicians And Other Health Professionals

Aug 31, 2012 / Comment Letters

MedPAC comment on 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

Research Areas:

Ambulatory Care Settings, Quality

Aug 31, 2012 / Comment Letters

MedPAC comment on CMS’s proposed rule entitled: Medicare program; home health prospective payment system rate update for calendar year 2013, hospice quality reporting requirements, and survey and enforcement requirements for home health agencies

Research Areas:

Delivery System Reforms, Post-Acute Care, Quality

Aug 29, 2012 / Contractor Reports

Improving the Accuracy of Time in the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule: Feasibility of Using Extant Data and of Collecting Primary Data

Research Areas:

Physicians And Other Health Professionals

Aug 29, 2012 / Contractor Reports

Methodological Concerns with the Medicare RBRVS Payment System and Recommendations for Additional Study

Research Areas:

Physicians And Other Health Professionals

Aug 29, 2012 / Contractor Reports

Collecting Data on Physician Services and Hours Worked

Research Areas:

Physicians And Other Health Professionals

Aug 29, 2012 / Meeting Brief

Benefit redesign: competitively-determined plan contributions

Aug 29, 2012 / Meeting Brief

Mandated report: geographic adjustment of payments for the work of physicians and other health professionals