The HCFA form, also known as Form HCFA 1500 or Form CMS-1500, is what noninstitutional practitioners file to payers (insurance companies). They often comprise the basis of medical claims .

How to Fill Out a Medicare CMS 1500 for Chiropractors. Non-institutional providers use the Health Insurance Claim Form, known as CMS 1500, when they need to bill Medicare contractors or suppliers.

Another component of HCFA's revamping would aim to have 30% of Medicare beneficiaries -- twice the current amount -- in HMOs by 2005, Scully said. Such a plan "signal[s] a big change," the New York ...

Stakeholders in Medicare, the nationhealth program for the elderly and disabled, insist with growing stridency that things are irrevocably broken in Medicare and in the Health Care Financing ...

NASI conducted individual interviews with former administrators and acting administrators of CMS and its predecessor, the Health Care Financing Administration, as part of its celebration of the ...

Through its 2000 policy, the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA; the predecessor agency to CMS) used its broad power to align Medicaid practice with the ADA by revising its policy of ...

Additional updates and changes. Beyond the notification process, the update also includes references to new CMS materials and updates the name of a form from HCFA-1739 to CMS-1739.Furthermore ...

CMS says it will update the star ratings quarterly. -- Here's a table of all the Massachusetts hospital ratings: This article was originally published on July 29, 2016.

MEDICARE II: HCFA, GAO Denounce Plan for Program Overhaul Federal officials yesterday expressed their disapproval of a plan to overhaul the Medicare payment system, CongressDaily/A.M. reports.

The healthcare industry often complains about the incomprehensibility of HCFA's regulations. While HCFA may talk in tongues to providers, it apparently can explain the Medicare program to ...

The management crisis has arrived. HCFA has still been able to accomplish its basic tasks paying Medicare and Medicaid bills, avoiding a Y2K disaster and to make progress starting the Medicare ...