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Comment Letter RE: CMS’s proposed revisions to the Medicare cost report entitled Hospital and Health Care Complexes (Aug 27, 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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A Data Book: Healthcare Spending and the Medicare Program (June 2009) |
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Acute inpatient services (Section 7, June 2009 Data Book) |
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Ambulatory care (Section 8, June 2009 Data Book) |
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Comment letter: CMS notice entitled: Medicare Program; Inpatient Psychiatric Facilities Prospective Payment System Payment Update for Rate Year Beginning July 1, 2009 (RY 2010); Notice (June 30, 2009) |
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Comment letter: CMS's proposed rule entitled: Medicare Program; Proposed Changes to the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems for Acute Care Hospitals and Fiscal Year 2010 Rates and to the Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System and Rate Year 2010 Rates (June 29, 2009; corrected version) |
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Correction notice on MedPAC's Comment letter: CMS's proposed rule entitled: Medicare Program; Proposed Changes to the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems for Acute Care Hospitals and Fiscal Year 2010 Rates and to the Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System and Rate Year 2010 Rates (June 29, 2009) |
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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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Accountable care organizations (Chapter 2, June 2009 report) |
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Medicare payment basics: Critical access hospitals payment system (October 14, 2009) |
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Medicare payment basics: Hospital acute inpatient services payment system (October 14, 2009) |
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Medicare payment basics: Long-term care hospitals payment system (October 14, 2009) |
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Medicare payment basics: Outpatient hospital services payment system (October 14, 2009) |
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Medicare payment basics: Psychiatric hospital services payment system (October 14, 2009) |
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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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Hospital inpatient and outpatient services (Chapter 2A, March 2009 report) |
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Inpatient rehabilitation facility services (Chapter 2F, March 2009 report) |
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Long-term care hospital services (Chapter 2G, 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 Re: Revising the SNF Prospective Payment System |
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Comment letter: CMS's interim final rule entitled Medicare Program; Changes for Long-Term Care Hospitals Required by Certain Provisions of the Medicare, Medicaid, SCHIP Extension Act of 2007; 3-Year Moratorium on the Establishment of New Long-Term Care Hospitals and Long-Term Care Satellite Facilities and Increases in Beds in Existing Long-Term Care Hospitals and Long-Term Care Hospital Satellite Facilities; and 3-Year Delay in the Application of Certain Payment Adjustments (July 21, 2008) |
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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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Examining hospital-physician collaborative relationships (Chapter 3, June 2008 report) |
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A path to bundled payment around a hospitalization (Chapter 4, June 2008 report) |
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Public reporting of physicians' financial relationships (Chapter 6, June 2008 report) |
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Comment letter: Department of Health and Human Services Report to Congress: Plan to Implement a Medicare Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program (April 1, 2008) |
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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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Hospital inpatient and outpatient services (Chapter 2A, March 2008 report) |
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Inpatient rehabilitation facility services (Chapter 2F, March 2008 report) |
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Long-term care hospital services (Chapter 2G, March 2008 report) |
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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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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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Payment policy for inpatient readmissions (Chapter 5, June 2007 report) |
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Contractor report: Potential Refinements to Medicare's Wage Indexes for Hospitals and Other Sectors (June 2007) A study conducted for the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission by RTI International |
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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 2008 Rates (June 11, 2007) |
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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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Comment letter: CMS's proposed rule entitled: Medicare Program; Prospective Payment System for Long-Term Care Hospitals, RY 2008: Proposed Annual Payment Rate Updates, and Policy Changes; and Proposed Hospital Direct and Indirect Graduate Medical Education Policy Changes (March 22, 2007) |
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Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy (March 2007) |
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Hospital inpatient and outpatient services (Chapter 2A, March 2007 report) |
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Inpatient rehabilitation facility services (Chapter 3C, March 2007 report) |
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Long-term care hospital services (Chapter 3D, March 2007 report) |
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Report to the Congress: Rural Payment Provisions in the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (December 2006) |
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Report to the Congress: Physician-Owned Specialty Hospitals Revisited (August 2006) |
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Comment letter: CMS's proposed rule entitled: Medicare Program; Proposed Changes to the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System and Fiscal Year 2007 Rates (June 12, 2006) |
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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) |
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Comment letter: Proposed changes to the inpatient prospective payment system (April 19, 2006) |
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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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Hospital inpatient and outpatient services (Chapter 2A, March 2006 report) |
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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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Comment letter: Medicare Wage Index Occupational Mix Survey (December 13, 2005) |
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Contractor report: A Study of Hospital Charge Setting Practices (December 2005) A study conducted for the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission by the Lewin Group. |
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Comment letter: CMS's proposed rule entitled: Proposed Changes to the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and Calendar Year 2006 Payment Rates (September 16, 2005) |
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Comment letter: CMS's proposed rule on changes to the hospital inpatient prospective payment system and fiscal year 2006 rates (June 23, 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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Critical access hospitals (Chapter 7, June 2005 report) |
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Testimony: Physician-owned specialty hospitals (May 24, 2005) U.S. Senate - Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs - Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, and International Security |
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Comment letter: CMS's proposed rule on hospital conditions of participation (May 24, 2005) |
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Testimony: Physician-owned specialty hospitals (May 12, 2005) U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Health |
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Testimony: Report to the Congress on Physician-Owned Specialty Hospitals (March 8, 2005) |
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Testimony: Report to the Congress on Physician-Owned Specialty Hospitals (March 8, 2005) U.S. House of Representatives - Subcommittee on Health - Committee on Ways and Means |
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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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Report to the Congress: Physician-Owned Specialty Hospitals (March 2005) |
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Hospital inpatient and outpatient services (Chapter 2A, March 2005 report) |
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Strategies to improve care: Pay for performance and information technology (Chapter 4, March 2005 report) |
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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: Proposed rule entitled Medicare Program: Proposed Changes to the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems and Fiscal Year 2005 Rates (July 9, 2004) |
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Report to the Congress: Sources of Financial Data on Medicare Providers (June 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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Defining long-term care hospitals (Chapter 5, 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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Hospital inpatient and outpatient services: Assessing payment adequacy and updating payments (Chapter 3A, March 2004 report) |
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MedPAC's policy goal for productivity (February 9, 2004) |
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Comment letter: Notice of proposed rulemaking entitled Medicare Program: Prospective Payment System for Inpatient Psychiatric Facilities (January 27, 2004) |
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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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Comment letter: Notice of proposed rulemaking entitled Medicare Program: Changes to the Criteria for Being Classified as an Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility (November 3, 2003) |
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Comment letter: Notice of proposed rulemaking entitled Changes to the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and Calendar Year 2004 Payment Rates (October 6, 2003) |
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Medicare Basics: Relationships among Medicare inpatient, overall Medicare and total margins for hospitals (August 7, 2003) |
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Comment letter: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed rule entitled Medicare Program; Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System for FY 2004 (July 7, 2003) |
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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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Accounting for variation in hospital financial performance under prospective payment (Chapter 3, June 2003 report) |
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Comment letter: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed rule entitled Medicare Program: Prospective Payment System for Long-Term Care Hospitals (May 6, 2003) |
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Comment letter: Inpatient PPS proposed rule (May 2003) |
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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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Assessing payment adequacy and updating payments for hospital inpatient and outpatient services (Chapter 2A, March 2003 report) |
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Payment for new technologies in Medicare's prospective payment system (Chapter 4, March 2003 report) |
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Inpatient payments for rural hospitals (Appendix C, March 2003 report) |
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Psychiatric hospital prospective payment system (January 2003) |
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Comment letter: Notice of proposed rulemaking entitled Changes to the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and Calendar Year 2003 Payment Rates: and Changes to Payment Suspension for Unfiled Cost Reports (October 4, 2002) |
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Comment letter: Prospective payment system for long-term care hospitals (May 21, 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 2B: Hospital inpatient and outpatient 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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Improving payment for inpatient hospital care in rural areas (Chapter 4, June 2001 report) |
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Assessing payment for outpatient hospital care in rural areas (Chapter 5, 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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