PDF Download: Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, Report to the Congress: New Approaches in Medicare, June 2004

Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, Report to the Congress: New Approaches in Medicare, June 2004; This PDF contains the Table of Contents, Executive Summary, and Chapter five of the report: “Defining long-term care hospitals” (pgs. 121-132). This article was shared by Andrea Silvey of the Health Services Advisory Group (QIO working in Santa Cruz, CA for this Special Innvation Project) after discussing the report on the February 11, 2013 call with the four QIOs examining Long Term Care Hospital utilization rates in their respective communities.