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Health Care Finance Administration
The Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) was created in 1977 to combine under one administration the oversight of the Medicare program, the Federal portion of the Medicaid program, and related quality assurance activities.
Medicare provides health insurance coverage for people age 65 and over, younger people who are receiving social security disability benefits, and persons who need dialysis or kidney transplants for treatment of end-stage renal disease.
Medicaid is a medical assistance program jointly financed by State and Federal governments for eligible low-income individuals. It covers health care expenses for all recipients of Aid to Families With Dependent Children, and most States also cover the needy elderly, blind, and disabled receiving cash assistance under the Supplemental Security Income Program. Coverage also is extended to certain infants and low-income pregnant women and, at the option of the State, other low-income individuals with medical bills that qualify them as categorically or medically needy.
The Medicare/Medicaid programs include a quality assurance focal point to carry out the quality assurance provisions of the Medicare and Medicaid programs; the development and implementation of health and safety standards of care providers in Federal health programs; and the implementation of the end-stage renal disease and the peer review provisions.
HCFA was renamed the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in July, 2001.
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Medicare Program; Prospective Payment System for Home Health Agencies; Correction
This document corrects technical errors that appeared in the final rule entitled, ``Medicare Program; Prospective Payment System for Home Health Agencies,'' published in the Federal Register on July 3, 2000.
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Medicaid Program; Medicaid Managed Care: Further Delay of Effective Date
This final rule temporarily delays the effective date of the final rule entitled ``Medicaid Managed Care'' that was published on January 19, 2001 in the Federal Register (66 FR 6228). That final rule amends the Medicaid regulations to implement provisions of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (BBA), which revised various aspects of the Medicaid law...
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State Child Health; Implementing Regulations for the State Children's Health Insurance Program: Further Delay of Effective Date
This final rule temporarily delays the effective date of the final rule entitled ``State Child Health; Implementing Regulations for the State Children's Health Insurance Program'' published in the January 11, 2001 Federal Register (66 FR 2490). That final rule implements provisions of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (BBA) related to the State...
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Medicaid Program; Use of Restraint and Seclusion in Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities Providing Inpatient Psychiatric Services to Individuals Under Age 21
On January 22, 2001, we published an interim final rule with comment period (66 FR 7148) that established a definition of a ``psychiatric residential treatment facility'' that is not a hospital and that may furnish covered Medicaid inpatient psychiatric services for individuals under age 21. The interim final rule established standards for the...
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Medicare and Medicaid Programs: Hospital Conditions of Participation: Anesthesia Services: Delay of Effective Date
To give the Department an opportunity to obtain comment on modifications to the rule entitled Medicare and Medicaid Programs: Hospital Conditions of Participation: Anesthesia Services, the Department is delaying until November 14, 2001 the effective date of the rule, which was published in the Federal Register on January 18, 2001, 66 F.R. 4674,...
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Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request
This notice announces the intention of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to request that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approve the proposed information collection project: ``Collection of Information for Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture Comparative...
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State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP); Redistribution and Continued Availability of Unexpended SCHIP Funds From the Appropriation for FY 1999
This notice announces the application of the statutory provisions concerning the redistribution and availability of unexpended funds appropriated for fiscal year (FY) 1999 for the State Children's Health Insurance Program under title XXI of the Social Security Act. It sets forth the amounts available for each of the 50 States, the District of...
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Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Notice for the Solicitation of Proposals for the Private, For-Profit Demonstration Project for the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE)
This notice solicits proposals from private, for-profit organizations for a fully capitated joint Medicare and Medicaid demonstration program. The purpose of this demonstration is to determine whether the risk-based long-term care model employed by the nonprofit Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) can be replicated successfully...