March 2019 Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy
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Executive summary (March 2019 report)
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Chapter 1: Context for Medicare payment policy (March 2019 report)
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Chapter 2: Assessing payment adequacy and updating payments in fee-for-service Medicare (March 2019 report)
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Chapter 3: Hospital inpatient and outpatient services (March 2019 report)
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Chapter 4: Physician and other health professional services (March 2019 report)
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Chapter 5: Ambulatory surgical center services (March 2019 report)
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Chapter 6: Outpatient dialysis services (March 2019 report)
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Chapter 7: Cross-cutting issues in post-acute care (March 2019 report)
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Chapter 8: Skilled nursing facility services (March 2019 report)
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Chapter 9: Home health care services (March 2019 report) (Revised)
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Chapter 10: Inpatient rehabilitation facility services (March 2019 report)
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Chapter 11: Long-term care hospital services (March 2019 report)
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Chapter 12: Hospice services (March 2019 report)
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Chapter 13: The Medicare Advantage program: Status report (March 2019 report)
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Chapter 14: The Medicare prescription drug program (Part D): Status report (March 2019 report)
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Chapter 15: Redesigning Medicare's hospital quality incentive programs (March 2019 report)
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Chapter 16: Mandated report: Opioids and alternatives in hospital settings—Payments, incentives, and Medicare data (March 2019 report)
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Appendix A: Commissioners' voting on recommendations (March 2019 report)
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