Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
"Medicare Payment Advisory Commission" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The Commission was created by the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 under Title XVIII. It is specifically charged to review the effect of Medicare+Choice under Medicare Part C and to review payment policies under Parts A and B. It is also generally charged to evaluate the effect of prospective payment policies and their impact on health care delivery in the US. The former Prospective Payment Assessment Commission (ProPAC) and the Physician Payment Review Commission (PPRC) were merged to form MEDPAC.
| Descriptor ID |
D020406
|
| MeSH Number(s) |
N03.219.521.710.305.200.500
|
| Concept/Terms |
|
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Medicare Payment Advisory Commission".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Medicare Payment Advisory Commission".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Medicare Payment Advisory Commission" by people in UAMS Profiles by year, and whether "Medicare Payment Advisory Commission" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
To see the data from this visualization as text,
click here.
| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
|---|
| 2011 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
To return to the timeline,
click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Medicare Payment Advisory Commission" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.