DEBT COLLECTION IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1996: HHS's Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Faces Challenges to Fully Implement Certain Key Provisions

Abstract

This report provides additional detail on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)2 progress in implementing the debt-referral requirements of DCIA to collect delinquent Medicare debts and includes several recommendations. 3 Collection of delinquent Medicare debts is particularly critical because they represented a significant portion about 9 percent of the approximately $58 billion of reported delinquent nontax debts governmentwide as of September 30, 2000, and continue to represent a large amount.

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• Document Type: Technical Report
• Publication Date: Feb 01, 2002
• Accession Number: ADA400245

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