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Comment letter: NCQA and CMS's proposed Special Needs Plan Requirements (November 25, 2008)

A Data Book: Healthcare Spending and the Medicare Program (June 2008)

Quality of care in the Medicare program (Section 4, June 2008 Data Book)

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

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Producing comparative-effectiveness information (Chapter 5, June 2008 report)

Comment letter: Department of Health and Human Services Report to Congress: Plan to Implement a Medicare Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program (April 1, 2008)

Contractor report: Creating a Center for Evidence-Based Medicine (February 2008)

A study conducted for the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission by staff from the American Institutes for Research

Comment letter: NCQA and CMS's proposed Special Needs Plan Requirements (January 18, 2008)

Contractor report: Health Plans' Use of Physician Resource Use and Quality Measures (October 2007)

A study conducted for the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission by Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.

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)

Testimony: Improving Medicare Efficiency and Value (April 18, 2007)

U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Health

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

Comment letter: Coverage with evidence development (February 8, 2007)

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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Care coordination in fee-for-service Medicare (Chapter 2, June 2006 report)

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

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)

Testimony: Pay for performance in Medicare (July 27, 2005)

U.S. Senate, Committee on Finance

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

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Strategies to improve care: Pay for performance and information technology (Chapter 4, March 2005 report)

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

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The Medicare Modernization Act and chronic care improvement (Chapter 2, June 2004 report)

Testimony: Improving quality through Medicare payment policy (March 18, 2004)

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.

Quality of care for Medicare beneficiaries (Chapter 2, March 2004 report)

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

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Using incentives to improve the quality of care in Medicare (Chapter 7, June 2003 report)

Report to the Congress: Applying Quality Improvement Standards in Medicare (January 2002)

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

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Quality of care in rural areas (Chapter 3, June 2001 report)