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).
For complete information about the organization of the newly named Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, please visit our Web site at www.codinginstitute.com.
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