Medicare Second Surgical Opinion Programs: The Effect of Waiving Cost-Sharing
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The Health Care Financing Administration conducts research, demonstration, and evaluation projects under legislative authorities included in the Social Security Act, the Public Health Service Act, and the Rural Health Service Act. When the Congress feels that additional information is necessary to make legislative changes to a specific area of the Medicare and Medicaid programs, it directs HCFA to conduct a study, demonstration, or evaluation project to answer this need. To ensure that the health community is aware of the results of these Congressionally mandated studies, the Health Care Financing Review will include, from time to time, a summary of the findings that have been officially transmitted to the Congress. This summary reports on the findings of a study mandated by P.L 96-499, the Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1980, Section 958(b).
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