June 2006 Report to the Congress: Increasing the Value of Medicare
Chapters
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Chapter 1: Using episode groupers to assess physician resource use (June 2006 report)
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Chapter 2: Care coordination in fee-for-service Medicare (June 2006 report)
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Chapter 3: Medicare's hospice benefit: Recent trends and consideration of payment system refinements (June 2006 report)
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Chapter 4: Keeping physicians' practice expense payment rates up to date (June 2006 report)
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Chapter 5: Adding quality measures in home health (June 2006 report)
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Chapter 6: Toward better value in purchasing outpatient therapy services (June 2006 report)
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Chapter 7: Part D plan offerings (June 2006 report)
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Chapter 8: How beneficiaries learned about the drug benefit and made plan choices (June 2006 report)
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Chapter 9: The Medicare Advantage program: Availability, benefits, and special needs plans (June 2006 report)
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Chapter 10: Medicare's use of clinical and cost-effectiveness information (June 2006 report)
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Appendix A: Review of CMS's preliminary estimate of the physician update for 2007 (June 2006 report)
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