Figure 1 shows the steady increase in the total amount of projected Federal and State Medicaid expenditures for persons living with AIDS between FFY 1994 and 2002 (
Health Care Financing Administration, 1997).
Other organizations that are valuable resources: AARP, the Washington, D.C.-based senior citizens advocacy group (800-424-3410; www.aarp.org), offers various publications on elderly issues; the
Health Care Financing Administration (www.hcfa.gov) publishes the brochure Your Medicare Handbook; the Medicare Website (www.medicare.gov) offers the booklet Medicare and You; and the Health Insurance Association of America (www.hiaa.org) can make available the Guide to Long-Term Care.
The US
Health Care Financing Administration has posted the results of a Medicare survey and of an assessment of the quality of health plans at http://www.medicare.gov Country Life, a UK consumer magazine, is going online.
Soon after the enactment of this proposal, the
Health Care Financing Administration mailed state Medicaid directors guidance on this new provision.
According to the
Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA, 1994), people with disabilities under the age of 65 who receive Medicaid benefits comprise 2 percent of the U.S.
Health Care Financing Administration, American businesses spent $204.5 billion on health-related expenses for their employees and dependents in 1991, an amount equal to 97.5 percent of all after-tax corporate profits for the year.
Similarly, the
Health Care Financing Administration, which supervises the medicaid program for low-income families, recently began requiring that virtually all children ages six months to 72 months undergo screening.
The
Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) collects data on all Medicare-reimbursed hospitalizations.
Given the uncertainties and caveats for tPA treatment, the
Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) announced last week that the drug "should not be singled out as a special case requiring special treatment" and that specific Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement for tPA would not be approved at this time.
In 1997 the
Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) issued a statement to long-term care facilities that receive Medicare or Medicaid funds regarding "do not resuscitate" (DNR) policies.
The new site for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, formerly known as the
Health Care Financing Administration. According to Health and Human Services Director Tommy G.
The program would be managed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), formally known as the
Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA).