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Congressional Budget Office
Testimony Statement of Dan L. Crippen Director Medicare's Payments to Physicians before the Committee on Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health U.S. House of Representatives (February 28, 2002)

General Accounting Office
Mental Health Services Effectiveness of Insurance Coverage and Federal Programs for Children Who Have Experienced Trauma Largely Unknown (August 2002)

Medicare Hospital Payments Refinements Needed to Better Account for Geographic Differences in Wages (September 2002)

Medicare Hospital and Physician Payments Geographic Cost Adjustments Important to Preserve Beneficiary Access to Services Statement of William J. Scanlon Director, Health Care Issues July 23, 2002

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC)
Adjusting Medicare payments for local market input prices (Congressional testimony, July 23, 2002)

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC)
Report TO THE CONGRESS Assessing Medicare Benefits

Medicare Payment Policy

Private Organizations

Allan Baumgarten
Minnesota Managed Care Review (2002) (summary)

Ohio Managed Care Review (2001) (summary)

Illinois Managed Care Review (2002) (summary)

American Association of Medical Colleges
Stop the Cuts

American Health Care Association
A Briefing Chartbook on Shortfalls in Medicaid Funding for Nursing Home Care Prepared for: American Health Care Association July 11, 2002 Prepared By BDO Seidman, LLP

A Briefing Chartbook on Shortfalls in Medicaid Funding for Nursing Home Care American Health Care Association August 30, 2001 Prepared By BDO Seidman, LLP

American Hospital Association
Testimony submitted to Congressional committees and federal agencies in 2002 Hospitals Face a Challenging Operating Environment Statement of the American Hospital Association before the Federal Trade Commission Health Care Competition Law and Policy Workshop September 9-10, 2002

The State of Hospitals' Financial Health

American Medical Association
Member Connect Medicare Physician Payment Cut Survey (July 2002)

Competition in Health Insurance: A Comprehensive Study of U.S. Markets
(Executive Summary) (November 2001)

California HealthCare Foundation
California Managed Care Review (2002)

National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)
The State of Health Care Quality: 2002 National Committee for Quality Assurance

New Health Plan Accreditation Status List

California – Office of the Patient Advocate
California HMO Report Card

California's HMO Guide: Getting the Most From Your HMO

The Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc. - The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Medicaid Managed Care Program
Are Incentives Effective in Improving the Performance of Managed Care Plans? By Mary Beth Dyer, Michael Bailit, and Christine Kokenyesi, Bailit Health Purchasing, March 2002 IP218-202

Commonwealth Fund
Average Out-of-Pocket Health Care Costs for Medicare+Choice Enrollees Increase Substantially in 2002

Trends in Medicare+Choice Benefits and Premiums, 1999-2002

Center for Studying Health System Change
Kinder and Gentler: Physicians and Managed Care, 1997-2001Tracking Report No. 5 November 2002 Bradley C. Strunk, James D. Reschovsky

Health Affairs
“Medicare + Choice: Current Role And Near-Term Prospects If M+C were eliminated, nearly one-third of its members would end up with Medicare coverage only, lacking supplemental benefits entirely.” by Kenneth E. Thorpe and Adam Atherly 17 July 2002 Volume 21 / Number 5

Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured
Medicaid Spending Growth: Results from a 2002 Survey

Kaiser Family Foundation
Trends and Indicators in the Changing Health Care Marketplace (2002)

National Academies of Science
Health Insurance is a Family Matter (2002)
Institute of Medicine (IOM), Board on Health Care Services (HCS), Division of Health Care Services (HCS)

Care Without Coverage: Too Little, Too Late (2002)
Board on Health Care Services (HCS), Division of Health Care Services (HCS), Institute of Medicine (IOM)

Managing Managed Care: Quality Improvement in Behavioral Health
Margaret Edmunds, Richard Frank, Michael Hogan, Dennis McCarty, Rhonda Robinson-Beale, and Constance Weisner, Editors; Committee on Quality Assurance and Accreditation Guidelines for Managed Behavioral Health Care, Institute of Medicine 1997.

National Medical Association
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Tenet Healthcare Corporation
A review of state data on hospital net revenues in California and the 10 counties in which Tenet has operations Net Inpatient Revenue Per Patient Day Comparison (February 4, 2003)