The acronym hcpcs originally stood for hcfa common procedure coding system, a medical billing process used by the centers for medicare and medicaid services (cms) Prior to 2001, cms was known as the health care financing administration (hcfa) Hcpcs was established in 1978 to provide a standardized coding system for describing the specific items and services provided in the delivery of health. Despite the copyrighted nature of the cpt code sets, the use of the code is mandated by almost all health insurance payment and information systems, including the centers for medicare and medicaid services (cms), and the data for the code sets appears in the federal register. Ambulatory payment classification apcs or ambulatory payment classifications are the united states government's method of paying for facility outpatient services for the medicare (united states) program. The medicare prescription drug, improvement, and modernization act, [1] also called the medicare modernization act or mma, is a federal law of the united states, enacted in 2003
Medicare is a federal health insurance program in the united states for people age 65 or older and younger people with disabilities, including those with end stage renal disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (als or lou gehrig's disease) It started in 1965 under the social security administration and is now administered by the centers for medicare and medicaid services (cms)
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