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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services , previously known as the Health Care Financing Administration , is a federal agency within the United States Department of Health and Human Services that administers the Medicare program and works in partnership with state governments to administer Medicaid, the State Children's Health Insurance Program , and health insurance portability standards. In addition to these programs, CMS has other responsibilities, including the administrative simplification standards from the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 , quality standards in long-term care facilities through its survey and certification process, and clinical laboratory quality standards under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments. Wikipedia*

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has hosted 2 events in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first program was a 2005 News Conference. The year with the highest average number of views per video was 2014 with an average of 417 views per video.

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