Medicare program; availability of information and records to the public--Health Care Financing Administration. Final rule.
We are changing the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) location of certain regulations applicable to the Medicare program that concern the availability of information and records to the public. Currently, HCFA shares regulations on that subject with the Social Security Administration (SSA) in Title 20 of the CFR. This change in location is one of a series intended to consolidate HCFA regulations in one place, Title 42 of the CFR, for the convenience of providers of services, intermediaries and others who use our regulations. This move will combine these regulations on the general availability of information with others in Title 42 on disclosure of official records and information about individuals. We do not intend any substantive changes. We have merely inserted updated addresses for requesting records, changed certain references to make them applicable to HCFA rather than SSA, and deleted obsolete items from the list of publications. Substantive changes will be proposed at a later date when we publish regulations on the availability of information and records for both the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
D000368:Aged; D003219:Confidentiality / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D006278:Medicare / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D014481:United States