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

• Medicare and rural health care: overview and challenges for policymakers (Chapter 1, June 2001 report)

• Rural beneficiaries' access to care (Chapter 2, June 2001 report)

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

• Improving payment for inpatient hospital care in rural areas (Chapter 4, June 2001 report)

• Assessing payment for outpatient hospital care in rural areas (Chapter 5, June 2001 report)

• Prospective payment for home health care in rural areas (Chapter 6, June 2001 report)

• Bringing Medicare + Choice to rural America (Chapter 7, June 2001 report)

• Reviewing the estimated payment update for physician services (Chapter 8, June 2001 report)

• Clinically based indicators of access to care for Medicare beneficiaries (Appendix A, June 2001 report)

• Summary of Medicare's special payment provisions for rural providers and criteria for qualification (Appendix B, June 2001 report)

• Financial performance of rural hospitals and the value of special payment policies (Appendix C, June 2001 report)

• Commissioners' voting on recommendations (Appendix D, June 2001 report)