...Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries did not receive the attention they deserve. At the Federal level, the Department of Health and Human Services' Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) administers the Medicare and Medicaid programs. HCFA is responsible for assuring that its Medicare...

...without problems. While data on the first year's impact of prospective pricing are not available from the Department of Health and Human Services' Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), the AHA and the Congressional Budget Office have made intensive use of the data that are available...

...increase in the amount of paperwork burden in order to respond to demands for increased documentation by the Department of Health and Human Services' Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA). Some 92 percent of the agencies reported they are seeing a sharp increase in the numbers of sicker...

...outstanding claims of $900 , 000 , some of which date back to October of 1984. He feel that the failure of the Department of Health and Human Services' Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) to abide by the Prompt Payment Act threatens the existence of many firms providing home health care...

...federally funded program providing health care to the aged and disabled. The program is administered by the Department of Health and Human Services, Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA). Medicare is divided into two pans. Part A includes hospital services and supplies. Pan B includes physicians'...

...and patient mix. The development of prospective payment based on diagnosis related groups (ORCs) by the Department of Health and Human Services, Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) for Medicare patients and the adoption of DRCs for resource allocation purposes by the VA Department...

...medical assistance program that serves low-income people. Within broad federal guidelines administered by the Department of Health and Human Services' Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), each state designs and manages its own Medicaid program. Under federal regulations, states are required...

...providing certain basic eligibility and expenditure information. National data were made available to us by the Department of Health and Human Services, Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA). Illinois submissions for the same years were made available by the Illinois Department of Public Aid...

...upon the current reimbursement rates for HealthEast. It should be noted that on February 28, 1991, the Department of Health and Human Services, Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) published proposed rules, which if made final, could effect this assumption substantially. This new...

...people. Under broad federal guidelines, each state designs and administers its own Medicaid program that the Department of Health and Human Services' Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) must approve for compliance with federal laws and regulations. The federal government matches state...