Under the reorganization of the agency, CMS will be split into three divisions, which Thompson said "will more clearly reflect its work" and emphasize responsiveness (Washington Post, 6/15). The ...

Stakeholders in Medicare, the nation's health program for the elderly and disabled, insist with growing stridency that things are irrevocably broken in Medicare and in the Health Care Financing ...

Scully also said yesterday that changing HCFA's name will be necessary to "reflect a new way of doing business," adding that one possible name would be the "Medicare and Medicaid Administration," or ...

"We are not just changing the name. We are changing the way we do business," U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson said in June when announcing that the Health Care ...

On 30 July 1965 President Lyndon B. Johnson signed laws establishing the Medicare and Medicaid programs (Titles 18 and 19 of the Social Security Act), the nation's first federally sponsored programs ...

In late 2000, the medtech industry directed its ire toward the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), which we now know as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). "To its critics, ...