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Medicare: Shared Systems Policy Inadequately Planned and Implemented

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date March 18, 1992
Report No. IMTEC-92-41
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Summary:

To save administrative costs and promote uniformity, the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) has been encouraging its Medicare claims-processing contractors to share automated data processing systems. In fiscal year 1991, HCFA paid 85 contractors $1.4 billion to process more than half a billion Medicare claims. This report presents GAO's evaluation of (1) HCFA's implementation of this policy and (2) the policy's impact on Medicare claims processing. GAO summarized this report in testimony before Congress; see: Medicare: Shared Systems Policy Inadequately Planned and Implemented, by Frank Reilly, Director of Human Resources Information Systems Issues, before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, House Committee on Energy and Commerce. GAO/T-IMTEC-92-11, Mar. 18, 1992 (seven pages).

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