Medicare Not Yet Ready for Year 1000
OPEN MINDS The Behavioral Health & Social Service Industry Analyst
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The Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) is not ready for the year 2000 and the administration of Medicare could suffer as a result. In a report, "Medicare Transaction System Success Depends Upon Correcting Critical Managerial and Technical Weaknesses," issued in May, 1997, the United States General Accounting Office (GAO) discussed the critical managerial and technical challenges facing HCFA in its efforts to ensure the viability of systems to handle Medicare transactions into the next century. These challenges included the . . .