HCFA Phase-Out Could Result From Separate Medicare Agency
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
The creation of a new agency to manage Medicare and the relocation of non-Medicare functions to other HHS agencies would allow for the dismantling of the Health Care Financing Administration, Patton Boggs Senior Health Policy Advisor Kathleen Means proposed during a Feb. 15 Senate Budget Committee hearing.
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