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Final Report on Assessment
Instruments for a Prospective
Payment System
Appendices
Joan L. Buchanan, Patricia Andres, Stephen M.
Haley, Susan M. Paddock, David C. Young,
Alan Zaslavsky
Prepared for the
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
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Final report on assessment instruments for prospective payment system : appendices / Joan L.

Buchanan [et al.].
p. cm.
“MR-1501/1.”
ISBN 0-8330-3222-4
1. Hospitals—Rehabilitation services—Prospective payment. I. Buchanan, Joan, 1947–
RA971.32 .F565 2002
362.1'786—dc21
2002031822
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