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Centers for Medicare Medicaid Services. Conditions of participation and conditions of coverage, http //cms.hhs.gov/cop/, accessed June 20, 2003. 

Centers for Medicare Medicaid Services. Decision Memo for Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy for Brain Tumors (CAG-00141N). January, 29, 2004. http //www.cms.hhs.gov/mcd/ viewdecisionmemo.asp id=52... 

Centers for Medicare Medicaid Services. 2003 Annual Report, End Stage Renal Disease Clinical Performance Measures Project. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare Medicaid Services, Center for Beneficiary Choices, Baltimore, December 2003. Am J Kidney Dis 2003 42(Suppl 2) S1-S96. 

Figure 2.3 Annual percentage change over previous year in selected health care expense categories. Source HHS Centers for Medicare Medicaid Services (CMS).

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has incorporated pneumococcal and influenza immunization rates into some of their quality standards. Patients admitted to a hospital for community-acquired pneumonia should be screened for, offered, and vaccinated with pneumococcal and influenza vaccines prior to discharge if not previously administered. In physicians office practice, all persons over 65 years of age who have been hospitalized in the past year should be screened for, offered, and vaccinated with pneumococcal and influenza vaccines if not previously administered. Both of these standards will affect payment if the standard is not met. The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations has also incorporated these standards into their accreditation reviews of health care facilities. 

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Guidelines for Monitoring Medication Use... 

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services reimbursement criteria for ICDs (http //www.cms.hhs. gov/mcd/viewimplementation.asp id= 148) include patients with either ischemic or nonischemic... 

On June 14, 2001, the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services announced a name change for HCFA to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. CLIA enforcement is to continue through the Center for Medicaid and State Operations. 

In recent years, numerous studies have evaluated the use of [ F]-FDG-PET for staging and restaging of tumor patients. Based on this data, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have approved Medicare reimbursement for [ F]-FDG-PET imaging in 10 oncological conditions so far (Table 2). 

In addition, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and other federal agencies formed the Quality Interagency Coordination Task Force in 2000 and issued an action plan for reducing medical errors. In 2001, former HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson announced a Patient Safety Task Force to coordinate a joint effort to improve data collection on patient safety. The lead agencies are the FDA, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. 

CMS (Center for Medicare Sc Medicaid Services). 2005. CLIA Approved Proficiency Testing Programs 2005 [online]. Available http //63.241.27.79/clia/ptlist.pdf. [accessed April 14,2006]. 

The proposed consensus committee should consider whether the CLIA program should become more active in ensuring the quality of environmental and occupational biomonitoring data by, for example, establishing a chemistry subspecialty in environmental and occupational medicine or expanding the array of biomonitoring-relevant proficiency tests available from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services-approved providers. 

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