Medicare contracting reform
Subtitle: CMS's plan has gaps and its anticipated savings are uncertain : report to congressional committees
Publisher: United States Government Accountability Office
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 63
Subjects: Appropriations and expenditures; Evaluation; Medicare; Claims administration; Public contracts; Organization & administration; Health Care Reform; Methods; Delivery of Health Care; Legislation & jurisprudence; Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (U.S.)
Notes: Cover title.

"August 2005."

"GAO-05-873."

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Table of contents: title: Letter; title: Appendix I, Documents CMS officials have identified as constituting the agency's plan for implementing contracting reform; title: Appendix II, Documents used by GAO to develop criteria for reviewing CMS's plan for contracting reform; title: Appendix III, GAO's criteria for evaluating CMS's contracting reform plan; title: Appendix IV, Scope and methodology; title: Appendix V, Comments from the Department of Health and Human Services; title: Appendix VI, CMS's MAC procurement and transition schedule; title: Appendix VII, Jurisdictional map of the current fiscal intermediaries; title: Appendix VIII, Jurisdictional map of the current carriers; title: Appendix IX, Jurisdictional map of the current regional home health intermediaries; title: Appendix X, Juridsdictional map of the current durable medical equipment regional carriers; title: Appendix XI, Jurisdictional map of the 15 new Medicare administrative contractors; title: Appendix XII, Jurisdictional map of the four DME MACs and the four HH MACs; title: Tables; title: Figures.