Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

The Centers for health care & Medicaid Services (CMS), antecedently called the Health Care funding Administration (HCFA), may be a office inside the u.  s. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) that administers the health care program and works in partnership with state governments to administer Medicaid, the State Children's insurance Program (SCHIP), and insurance movableness standards. additionally to those programs, CMS has different responsibilities, as well as the executive simplification standards from the insurance movableness and answerableness Act of 1996 (HIPAA), quality standards in long care facilities (more usually mentioned as nursing homes) through its survey and certification method, clinical laboratory quality standards beneath the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments, and oversight of attention.gov.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Informations
Agency overview
Formed	1977
Preceding Agency	Health Care Financing Administration (1977-2001)
Headquarters	Woodlawn, Baltimore County, Maryland
Employees	4,100
Agency executive	Marilyn Tavenner
Website	www.cms.gov