Introduction
The Centre for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency within the US Department of Health and Human Services is responsible for the administration of various key federal health care programs with a main mission of enhancing the timely delivery of quality health care to Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries and ensure that these programs are administered in an efficient manner. The agency also ensures that program beneficiaries are aware of the services they are entitled to receive, and that those services are accessible and of high quality. To achieve its mandate, the agency has adapted policies, actions and ...