MedPAC Releases Updated Medicare Basics Documents
On October 5, 2007, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) released updated documents for its Medicare Basics and Medicare Payment Basics series. The documents include a document entitled Medicare Benefit Design and the following documents which provide an overview of individual Medicare payment systems:
- Oxygen and Oxygen Equipment
- Skilled Nursing Facilities
- Physician Services
- Psychiatric Hospital Services
- Rehabilitation Facilities
- Medicare Part D
- Outpatient Therapy Services
- Medicare Advantage Program
- Outpatient Dialysis Services
- Outpatient Hospital Services
- Home Health Care Services
- Hospice Services
- Hospital Acute Inpatient Services
- Long-Term Care Hospitals
- Clinical Laboratory Services
- Critical Access Hospitals
- Durable Medical Equipment
- Ambulatory Surgical Centers
MedPAC is an independent federal body established by the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 to advise Congress on issues affecting the Medicare program.
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