Medicare contracting reform : CMS's plan has gaps and its anticipated savings are uncertain : report to congressional committees.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors:	United States. Government Accountability Office, ProQuest (Firm)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, D.C. : United States Government Accountability Office, [2005]
Series:	U.S. Congressional Research.
Subjects:	Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (U.S.) > Appropriations and expenditures > Evaluation. Medicare > Claims administration. Public contracts > United States > Evaluation. Medicare. Health care reform > United States. Medical care > Law and legislation > United States. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

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