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Advising the Congress on Medicare issues
MedPAC > Recommendations > Report on comparing quality among Medicare Advantage plans and between Medicare Advantage and fee-for-service Medicare (5)

Report on comparing quality among Medicare Advantage plans and between Medicare Advantage and fee-for-service Medicare (5)

March 1, 2010

The Secretary should expeditiously publish specifications for forthcoming Medicare Advantage plan encounter data submissions to obtain the data needed to calculate patient outcome measures.

Appeared in: March 2010 - Chapter 6

Topics: Part C (Medicare Advantage) and Quality.