Terms Related to Physician Payment Review Commission

• Medicare Payment Advisory Commission

  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 ...

• Prospective Payment Assessment Commission

  The commission charged with evaluating issues and factors which affect the implementation of the PROSPECTIVE PAYMENT SYSTEM.

• United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment

  An office established to help Congress participate and plan for the consequences of uses of technology. It provided information on both the beneficial and adverse ...

• PROPAC

  The commission charged with evaluating issues and factors which affect the implementation of the PROSPECTIVE PAYMENT SYSTEM.

• Hospital Activities Commission on Professional

  The non-profit, non-governmental organization which collects, processes, and distributes data on hospital use. Two programs of the Commission are the Professional Activity Study and the ...

• Governmental Commission

  Groups set up to advise governmental bodies, societies, or other institutions on policy. (Bioethics Thesaurus)

• PL104 191

  Public Law 104-91, enacted in 1996, is designed to protect health insurance coverage for workers and their families when they change or lose their jobs. ...