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For Immediate Release: January 8, 2002
HHS Proposes New
"Centralized"
Medicare Database
Public Has Until January
15, 2002 to Comment
Washington, D.C.--The public has until Tuesday, January
15, 2002 to share their comments on the federal government's
proposal to establish a centralized database that "would provide
a database of pertinent and comprehensive personal data on
people with Medicare" and others. The "notice of a new system
of records" was announced in the Federal Register on
December 6, 2001.
Click below to read the Federal Register notice:
[TEXT]
[PDF]
You can send your comments to the U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services via e-mail to Ned Burford: nburford@cms.hhs.gov
For more information about the proposed centralized database,
contact William Seabrease at the Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services (formerly the Health Care Financing Administration)
at (410) 786-6187.
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