HCFA, among other calculations, had to perform a special data collection from its fiscal intermediaries to obtain cost report data and generate an unduplicated census count from the National Claims History Standard Analytical File.
HCFA needed to get a cost report so they could show it to their suppliers.
mnli hypothesis: HCFA needed to get a cost report so they could show it to their suppliers. premise: HCFA, among other calculations, had to perform a special data collection from its fiscal intermediaries to obtain cost report data and generate an unduplicated census count from the National Claims History Standard Analytical File.