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.
Bureau of Program Operations, HCFA, Baltimore, MD 21207, USA.
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