MedPAC Report to the Congress: Medicare and the Health Care Delivery System, June 2019
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Description
Evaluates Medicare payment issues and offers recommendations to the U.S. Congress. Includes a chapter on access to primary care for Medicare beneficiaries that addresses rural access to care and programs supporting it, such as the National Health Service Corps. Other sections of the report addressing rural concerns focus on Medicare enrollment, changes in hospice and post-acute care after implementing the long-term care hospital dual payment-rate structure, and Medicare fee-for-service spending for emergency department services.
Date
06/2019
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Document
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Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
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Access · Emergency department and urgent care services · Health occupations · Long-term care · Medicare · Policy · Primary care · Reimbursement and payment models · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data