Medicare program; revisions to criteria and standards for evaluating intermediaries--Health Care Financing Administration. Final rule with comment period.
This is a technical revision to Medicare regulations that will simplify and improve our system for evaluating the performance of fiscal intermediaries in the administration of the Medicare program. Currently, we evaluate intermediaries using performance criteria, described in regulations, and statistical standards issued through an annual notice in the Federal Register. We are removing the detailed description of the criteria from regulations in favor of issuing a combined Federal Register notice for both the criteria and the standards. This change will obviate the need to revise the description of the criteria in regulations as changes are made in the evaluation system.
D014487:Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S.; D007341:Insurance / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D007344:Insurance Claim Reporting / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D008330:Management Audit; D006278:Medicare / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D014481:United States