HCFA Releases Final Medicare+Choice Regulation

OPEN MINDS On-Line News The Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) released the final Medicare+Choice regulation on June 19, 2000, which allows the agency to continue to ensure that Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in Medicare+Choice plans will receive quality health care without imposing new, unnecessary costs on the organizations that provide the care. In addition, HCFA is planning to extend the transition period for risk adjustment responding to concerns of the health plans that there is a need for a more gradual phase in of risk adjustment to ease the transition to the new system and allow plans to . . .