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A component of the Department of Health and Human Services to oversee and direct the Medicare and Medicaid programs and related Federal medical care quality control staffs. Name was changed effective June 14, 2001.
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- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (U.S.)
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S.
- HCFA
- Health Care Financing Administration
- Health Care Financing Administration (U.S.)
- Health Care Financing Administration, U.S.
- United States Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- United States Health Care Financing Administration
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Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.
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add UNITED STATES; research support by this agency is checked as RESEARCH SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; CATALOGER: Use NAF entry
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History Note
2020 (1982); was CENTERS FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID SERVICES (U.S.) 2002-2019; was UNITED STATES HEALTH CARE FINANCING ADMINISTRATION 1992-2001; was UNITED STATES DEPT. OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 1982-1990
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- National Library of Medicine. U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D014487. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D014487
- U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centers_for_Medicare_%26_Medicaid_Services
- U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5060058