Medicare Association Case Study

Based on your research, respond to the following:

What was the name change for HCFA?

It was renamed the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in July, 2001.

What were the documented reasons for the change from HCFA to the organization’s current name?

According to the Tuesday 03, July 2001 Issue: Agency Information Collection Activities; the documented reason(s) for the change of name of the organization was to add greater emphasis on the qualified purpose of the Medicare and Medicaid services, and bring greater understanding on the health tasks and issues in hand.

Do you feel the focus of the organization changed with the name change? If so, what do you feel was a significant change in the mission or focus? If not, support why you feel the mission did not change.

To further elaborate, the organization was brought up to manage and restore the attention of Medicare, Medicaid, and other related quality services and provide them to the American citizens who dire needed them. This is said in the first paragraph, “The Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) was created in 1977 to combine under one administration the oversight of the Medicare program, the Federal portion of the Medicaid program, and related quality assurance activities,” (Federal Register. n.d.). The remaining of the article emphasizes the services by defining and explaining what Medicare and Medicaid are, and gives elaborate declarations of the two. Finally, to end by changing the name to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in July, 2001. As one can see, following the flow of the article’s history, there is no change whatsoever in the direction of the organization, as both names emphasize the product rather than the