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prospective payment assessment commission  

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  • An advisory body created by Congress in 1983 to oversee the implementation of the new medicare prospective payment system for hospitals and to recommend changes, the Prospective Payment Assessment Commission (ProPAC) also proposed the amounts by which hospital payments should be adjusted annually. In the 1997 Balanced Budget Act (PL 105–33), ProPAC and the parallel advisory commission for physician payments, the physician payment review commission, were merged into a single, fifteen-member entity called the medicare payment advisory commission (MedPAC).. [Source: Health Care Policy and Politics A to Z; Prospective Payment Assessment Commission (ProPAC)]

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