Medicare Transaction System: platform for change.
This article provides an overview of the Medicare Transaction System (MTS), a Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA)-wide initiative to be implemented starting in 1997 which will develop a national, standard, integrated, government-owned, contractor-operated Medicare claims processing system that will meet the challenges confronting Medicare over the next 2 decades. The authors discuss MTS goals and objectives, major features, how it will work, standardization efforts being undertaken in support of the initiative, contracting efforts involved, and project status.
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Bureau of Program Operations, HCFA, Baltimore, MD 21207, USA.
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D014487:Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S.; D007345:Insurance Claim Review / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006278:Medicare / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D014481:United States