Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Joins with FDA in New Initiative to Improve Patient Safety (Senior Journal)
May 22, 2008 - The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will begin sharing data on prescription drug use to help government agencies and academic researchers improve the safety, quality and efficiency of health care services, while as part of this new initiative launched by Health and Human Services, the Food and Drug Administration will be more proactive in its surveillance of medical ...

MAXIMUS Awarded $7.2 Million Medicare Task Order (Centre Daily Times)
MAXIMUS (NYSE:MMS) has been awarded a new one-year Qualified Independent Contractor (QIC) task order by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) worth $7.2 million. Under the new task order, Medicare Part A East, MAXIMUS will serve as a QIC to conduct reconsiderations of initial Medicare claims determinations for the eastern half of the United States.

New safety program to monitor Medicare drug use (San Francisco Chronicle)
Federal health officials will begin monitoring prescription drug usage by millions of Medicare participants in an effort to identify potential safety problems. The Food and Drug Administration has been under increasing pressure to develop a comprehensive drug...