Definition: A component of the Department of Health and Human Services to oversee and direct the Medicare and Medicaid programs and related Federal medical care quality control staffs. Name was changed effective June 14, 2001.
add UNITED STATES (NIM); research support by this agency is checked as RESEARCH SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; DF: HCFA CATALOG: use NAF entry
Other names United States Health Care Financing Administration; United States Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Se; Health Care Financing Administration (U.S.); Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; Health Care Financing Administration; HCFA
