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Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy (March 2002)
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Chapter 1: How Medicare pays for services: an overview
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Assessing payment adequacy and updating payments in traditional Medicare
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Chapter 2A: Accounting for changes in input prices
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Chapter 2B: Hospital inpatient and outpatient services
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Chapter 2C: Physician services
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Chapter 2D: Skilled nursing facility services
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Chapter 2E: Home health services
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Chapter 2F: Outpatient dialysis services
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Chapter 3: Paying for new technology in the outpatient prospective payment system
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Chapter 4: What next for Medicare+Choice?
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Appendix A: The construct of Medicare price indexes
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Appendix B: A data book on hospital financial performance
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Appendix C: Commissioners' voting on recommendations
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