Local Medicare Workgroup Policies Clash With HCFA's Open Process - MDMA
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
The Health Care Financing Administration should abolish Medicare contractor medical director (CMD) workgroups as a step toward achieving the kind of transparency for local carrier policymaking that the agency is seeking for its national coverage decision process, MDMA states in a Jan. 2 letter to HCFA.