Jun 16, 2006 / Contractor Reports

The Medicare Hospice Payment System: A Preliminary Consideration of Potential Refinements

Research Areas:

Post-Acute Care

Jun 13, 2006 / Contractor Reports

Medicare Advantage Special Needs Plans Site Visits

Research Areas:

Private Plans

Jun 13, 2006 / Reports

June 2006 Report to the Congress: Increasing the Value of Medicare

Research Areas:

Hospitals, Post-Acute Care, Private Plans, Quality

Jun 12, 2006 / Comment Letters

MedPAC comment on CMS’s proposed rule entitled: Medicare Program; Proposed Changes to the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System and Fiscal Year 2007 Rates

Research Areas:

Hospitals

Jun 02, 2006 / Contractor Reports

Small Patient Population and Low Frequency Event Effects on the Stability of SNF Quality Measures

Research Areas:

Post-Acute Care, Quality

Jun 02, 2006 / Comment Letters

MedPAC comment on quality sections of CMS’s proposed rule entitled: Medicare Program; Proposed Changes to the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System and Fiscal Year 2007 Rates

Research Areas:

Hospitals, Quality

Jun 01, 2006 / Chapters

Chapter 6: Toward better value in purchasing outpatient therapy services (June 2006 report)

Research Areas:

Hospitals, Physicians And Other Health Professionals, Quality

Jun 01, 2006 / Chapters

Chapter 4: Keeping physicians’ practice expense payment rates up to date (June 2006 report)

Research Areas:

Physicians And Other Health Professionals, Quality

Jun 01, 2006 / Chapters

Appendix A: Review of CMS’s preliminary estimate of the physician update for 2007 (June 2006 report)

Research Areas:

Medicare Spending and Financing, Physicians And Other Health Professionals

Jun 01, 2006 / Chapters

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

Research Areas:

Hospitals, Medicare Spending and Financing, Post-Acute Care, Quality