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...available at local Social Security offices as well as on the Internet, at www.ssa.gov. Medicare The Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), which runs Medicare, currently is distributing a new booklet, ''Medicare & You 2000...
WASHINGTON -- The Health Care Financing Administration proposed raising Medicare payment rates for nursing homes by almost 6 percent and directing more money toward the care of acutely...
...information, your readers can call 1-800-MEDICARE (1-800-633-4227). -- NANCY-ANN DEPARLE, HEALTH CARE FINANCING ADMINISTRATION DEAR NANCY-ANN: I agree that an annual mammogram is a wise precaution. I'm sure some readers will...
...Services (www.os.dhhs.gov). Includes computer links to many of the department's agencies. -- Health Care Financing Administration (www.hcfa.gov). The operations of the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Also: www.medicare.gov...
...to make it easier for the staff to control the patient, according to Robert Daly, an official with the Health Care Financing Administration's Chicago office, which oversees hospitals in the region. "The patients were restrained for the convenience...
...centers and eventually hospitals and doctors, a senior Bush administration official announced Monday. The Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), using newspaper advertisements, the Internet and toll-free telephone numbers, plans to release...
...and Florida, according to the U.S. Health Care Financing Administration. Currently, 39 of Ohio's 88 counties...Medicare: http://medicare.gov Health Care Financing Administration: http://www.hcfa.gov End advance...
...Minnesota and other states have lobbied Congress for years to change the system. The problem is that the Health Care Financing Administration, which runs Medicare, uses an inaccurate yardstick to measure medical costs in each county when it determines...
...Louisiana, Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Texas -- represent nearly half the $572 million that the Health Care Financing Administration, the agency that runs Medicare, paid for outpatient rehab services nationwide in 1997. The report found...
...Morrison, Todd and Wadena Counties sought a federal waiver and were told to expect that approval last July. Health Care Financing Administration never approved the waiver until last week, Cass Commissioner Joanne Pels told her fellow commissioners...