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HCFA Changes Name to CMS

Published on Wed Aug 01, 2001

The Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) has been renamed the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
 
Tommy Thompson, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, announced the change during a June 14, 2001, news conference.
 
The new agency has been organized into three centers of service. The Center for Medicare Management will oversee traditional fee-for-services programs; The Center for Beneficiary Choices will provide beneficiaries with information on Medicare, Medicare Select, Medicare+Choice and Medigap options; and The Center for Medicaid and State Operations will focus on Medicaid and other programs administered by individual states.  For more information on this, please visit our Web site at www.codinginstitute.com and check out the Hot Coding Bulletins.
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