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Comment letter: CMS's proposed rule entitled: Medicare program; Home health prospective payment system rate update for calendar year 2010 (September 23, 2009)

A Data Book: Healthcare Spending and the Medicare Program (June 2009)

Post-acute care (Section 9, June 2009 Data Book)

Other services-dialysis, hospice, clinical laboratory (Section 12, June 2009 Data Book)

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)

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)

Comment letter: CMS's proposed rule entitled: Medicare Program; Prospective Payment System and Consolidated Billing for Skilled Nursing Facilities for FY 2010; Minimum Data Set, Version 3.0 for Skilled Nursing Facilies and Medicaid Nursing Facilities; Proposed Rule (June 29, 2009)

Comment letter: CMS's proposed rule entitled Medicare Program; Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System for Federal Fiscal Year 2010; Proposed Rule (June 23, 2009)

Comment letter: CMS's proposed rule entitled: Medicare Program; Proposed Hospice Wage Index for Fiscal Year 2010; Proposed Rule (June 17, 2009)

Medicare payment basics: Home health care services payment system (October 14, 2009)

Medicare payment basics: Hospice services payment system (October 14, 2009)

Medicare payment basics: Long-term care hospitals payment system (October 14, 2009)

Medicare payment basics: Rehabilitation facilities (inpatient) payment system (October 14, 2009)

Medicare payment basics: Skilled nursing facility services payment system (October 14, 2009)

Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy (March 2009)

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Skilled nursing facility services (Chapter 2D, March 2009 report)

Home health services (Chapter 2E, March 2009 report)

Inpatient rehabilitation facility services (Chapter 2F, March 2009 report)

Long-term care hospital services (Chapter 2G, March 2009 report)

Reforming Medicare's hospice benefit (Chapter 6, March 2009 report)

Executive summary (March 2009 report)

Comment letter to CMS Re: Revising the SNF Prospective Payment System

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)

Comment letter: CMS's proposed rule entitled Medicare Program; Prospective Payment System and Consolidated Billing for Skilled Nursing Facilities for FY 2009 (June 25, 2008)

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

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A revised prospective payment system for skilled nursing facilities (Chapter 7, June 2008 report)

Evaluating Medicare's hospice benefit (Chapter 8, June 2008 report)

Contractor report: Modeling Alternative Designs for a Revised PPS for Skilled Nursing Facilities (June 2008)

A study conducted for the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission by the Urban Institute

Comment letter: CMS's proposed rule entitled Medicare Program; Prospective Payment System for Long-Term Care Hospitals RY 2009: Proposed Annual Payment Rate Updates, Policy Changes, and Clarifications; Proposed Rule (March 24, 2008)

Comment letter: CMS's proposed revisions to the Minimum Data Set for nursing homes and skilled nursing facilities (March 21, 2008)

Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy (March 2008)

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Contractor report: Trends Between 2000 and 2005 in SNF Rates of Community Discharge and Rehospitalization

A study conducted for the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission by staff from the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center

Skilled nursing facility services (Chapter 2D, March 2008 report)

Home health services (Chapter 2E, March 2008 report)

Inpatient rehabilitation facility services (Chapter 2F, March 2008 report)

Long-term care hospital services (Chapter 2G, March 2008 report)

Comment letter: CMS's proposed rule entitled Medicare Program; Prospective Payment System and Consolidated Billing for Skilled Nursing Facilities for FY 2008 (June 27, 2007)

Comment letter: CMS's proposed rule entitled Medicare Program: Proposed Changes to the Home Health Prospective Payment System Refinement and Rate Update for Calendar Year 2008 (June 26, 2007)

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)

Skilled nursing facilities: The need for reform (Chapter 8, June 2007 report)

Contractor report: Understanding Temporal Changes in and Factors Associated with SNF Rates of Community Discharge and Rehospitalization (June 2007)

A study conducted for the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission by staff from the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center

Comment letter: CMS's proposed rule entitled Medicare Program; Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System for FY 2008 (June 11, 2007)

Testimony: Payments to Selected Fee-For-Service Providers (May 15, 2007)

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

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)

Contractor report: Closures of Hospital-Based SNF Units: Insights from Interviews with Administrators, Discharge Planners and Referring Physicians (March 2007)

A study conducted for the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission by the Urban Institute

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

Post-acute care providers: An overview of issues (Chapter 3, March 2007 report)

Skilled nursing facility services (Chapter 3A, March 2007 report )

Home health services (Chapter 3B, March 2007 report)

Inpatient rehabilitation facility services (Chapter 3C, March 2007 report)

Long-term care hospital services (Chapter 3D, March 2007 report)

Comment letter: CMS's proposed rule entitled: Medicare program; Home health prospective payment system rate update for calendar year 2007 (September 22, 2006)

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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Contractor report: The Medicare Hospice Payment System: A Preliminary Consideration of Potential Refinements (June 2006)

A study conducted for the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission by RAND Health.

Medicare's hospice benefit: Recent trends and consideration of payment system refinements (Chapter 3, June 2006 report)

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

Comment letter: CMS’s proposed rule entitled: Medicare Program; Prospective Payment System for Long-Term Care Hospitals, RY 2007 (March 20, 2006)

Testimony: Long-term care hospitals (March 15, 2006)

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

Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy (March 2006)

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Home health services (Chapter 4B, March 2006 report)

Long-term care hospital services (Chapter 4C, March 2006 report)

Inpatient rehabilitation facility services (Chapter 4D, March 2006 report)

Post-acute care providers (Chapter 4, March 2006 report)

Skilled nursing facility services (Chapter 4A, March 2006 report )

Report to the Congress: Home Health Agency Case Mix and Financial Performance (December 2005)

Comment letter: CMS’s proposed rule entitled Medicare Program; Home Health Prospective Payment Rate Update for Calendar Year 2006 (September 6, 2005)

Comment letter: CMS's proposed rule entitled Medicare Program; Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System for FY 2006 (July 13, 2005)

Comment letter: CMS’s proposed rule entitled Medicare Program: Prospective Payment System and Consolidated Billing for Skilled Nursing Facilities for FY 2006 (July 8, 2005)

Report to the Congress: Issues in a Modernized Medicare Program (June 2005)

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Payment for post-acute care (Chapter 5, June 2005 report)

Comment letter: CMS's proposed rule on the Long Term Care Hospitals (March 29, 2005)

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

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Skilled nursing facility services (Chapter 2C, March 2005 report)

Home health services (Chapter 2D, March 2005 report)

Comment letter: Proposed rule entitled Medicare Program: Proposed Changes to the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems and Fiscal Year 2005 Rates (July 9, 2004)

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

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Defining long-term care hospitals (Chapter 5, June 2004 report)

Hospice care in Medicare: Recent trends and a review of the issues (Chapter 6, June 2004 report)

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.

Skilled nursing facility services: Assessing payment adequacy and updating payments (Chapter 3C, March 2004 report)

Home health services: Assessing payment adequacy and updating payments (Chapter 3D, March 2004 report)

Comment letter: Notice of proposed rulemaking entitled Medicare Program: Changes to the Criteria for Being Classified as an Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility (November 3, 2003)

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)

Comment letter: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed rule entitled Medicare Program; PPS and Consolidated Billing for Skilled Nursing Facilities - Update (July 3, 2003)

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

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Monitoring post-acute care (Chapter 5, June 2003 report)

Comment letter: CMS's proposed revisions to minimum data set (MDS) 3.0 (May 30, 2003)

Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy (March 2003)

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Assessing payment adequacy and updating payments for skilled nursing facility services (Chapter 2C, March 2003 report)

Assessing payment adequacy and updating payments for home health services (Chapter 2D, March 2003 report)

Comment letter: Skilled nursing facility coverage in Medicare+Choice plans (December 19, 2002)

Report to the Congress: Medicare Beneficiaries' Access to Hospice
(May 2002)

Comment letter: Prospective payment system for long-term care hospitals (May 21, 2002)

Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy (March 2002)

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Chapter 2D: Skilled nursing facility services

Chapter 2E: Home health services

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

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Prospective payment for home health care in rural areas (Chapter 6, June 2001 report)