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News Brief: HCFA Changes Name to CMS

Internal Medicine Coding Alert

News Brief:

HCFA Changes Name to CMS

Published on Wed Aug 01, 2001

The Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), which administers Medicare and Medicaid policy, has been renamed the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
 
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