Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
www.cms.gov
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) – Formerly known as the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) was renamed in July 2001. CMS administers the Medicare and Medicaid Programs. Medicare and Medicaid enacted in 1965, originally provided health care coverage to Americans over the age of 65. In 1972, Medicare was expanded to Americans living with disabilities. The joint federal-state Medicaid program provides health care coverage to low-income families with children under 21. These programs were created in the Social Security Act and were administered by the Social Security Administration until 1977. That year, Medicare and Medicaid were transferred to the Department of Health and Human Services and to the Health Care Financing Administration. In 1997, the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) was included in the Balanced Budget Act.

As part of this package of reforms, the agency was renamed the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and refocused along its three primary lines of service - the Center for Medicare Management, Center for Beneficiary Choices and the Center for Medicaid and State Operations.

Site includes state information, special initiatives and program rules and regulations.

For more information on Medicare and Medicaide see hrtw.org/healthcare/public.html

National Association of State Medicaid Directors
Aged, Blind, Disabled Medicaid Eligibility Survey-Interactive Tool
www.masterpiecepublishers.com/eligibility/default.asp

Data base of various eligibility choices for aged, blind, and disabled populations made by state Medicaid programs. Site contains an explanation of aged, blind, and disabled eligibility rules, - options on how to search for specific information on eligibility options chosen by all fifty states and the District of Columbia. Most complete information on a state's Medicaid programs for the aged, blind, and disabled.

Use the static tables to compare information on all states that offer a medically needy group for the aged, blind, and disabled. Alternately, a second search option allows you to design your own search by both state and category in order to compare specific states and their decisions within distinct aged, blind, and disabled eligibility categories.