tci Part B Insider - 2004 Issue 15

Tough Times Ahead For CMS

Two former heads of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services warned April 8 that the agency faces a huge task in implementing the sweeping changes contained in the recently passed Medicare Modernization Act.  In testimony before the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, Gail Wilensky and Nancy-Ann DeParle said the government should have contingency plans in place in case CMS misses deadlines in the legislation, which establishes a prescription-drug benefit for seniors beginning in 2006. DeParle had to implement the myriad changes contained in the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, but she said that challenge paled in comparison to...

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