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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is a federal agency within the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that administers the Medicare program and works in partnership with state governments to administer Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and health insurance portability standards.
In 1981, the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) sponsored the Hawaii Medicaid Project, a seven-year prospective study examining the impact of a new, collaborative behavioral health system among 36,000 Medicaid beneficiaries and 91,000 federal employees in Honolulu. This landmark trial compared the medical cost-offset among patients who ...
A mental health professional is a health care practitioner or social and human services provider who offers services for the purpose of improving an individual's mental health or to treat mental disorders. This broad category was developed as a name for community personnel who worked in the new community mental health agencies begun in the ...
The chief public health officer of Canada is the senior health official for the federal government.. In Ontario, one individual is named chief medical officer of health for the province and has powers to issue guidance, to issue provincial orders, and to coordinate public health responses with medical officers of health, who oversee various public health units.
In the United States, Medicaid is a government program that provides health insurance for adults and children with limited income and resources. The program is partially funded and primarily managed by state governments, which also have wide latitude in determining eligibility and benefits, but the federal government sets baseline standards for state Medicaid programs and provides a ...
Nov. 1—A doctor and a former law enforcement officer face a host of charges after state agents allege they ran a Medicaid fraud scheme for several years through a now-defunct Albuquerque ...
Secretary of Health and Human Services is a level I position in the Executive Schedule, [5] thus earning a salary of US$246,400, as of January 2024. [ 6 ] Endocrinologist Dorothy Fink has served as the acting United States secretary of health and human services since January 20, 2025.
Headquartered in Franklin, TN, Summit BHC was established to develop and operate a network of leading behavioral and mental health centers throughout the country. Summit BHC’s primary focus is on the provision of psychiatric services and substance use disorder treatment within a flexible and dynamic continuum of care.