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Medicare Lifestyle Modification Program Demonstration
Federal Register Notice - October 1, 1999
[Federal Register: October 1, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 190)]
[Notices]
[Page 53394]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr01oc99-107]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Care Financing Administration
[HCFA-3025-N]
Medicare Program; Notice of the Implementation of the Medicare
Lifestyle Modification Program Demonstration Project
AGENCY: Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: This notice announces our implementation of the Medicare Lifestyle Modification Program Demonstration. Lifestyle modification programs are increasingly becoming an approach to the secondary prevention of coronary disease morbidity. Such programs may reduce the incidence of hospitalizations and invasive procedures among patients with substantial coronary occlusion.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Armen Thoumaian, Ph.D. at (410) 786- 6672, or Athoumaian@cms.hhs.GOV.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The purpose of this demonstration is to test the feasibility and effectiveness of providing payment for cardiovascular lifestyle modification program services to Medicare beneficiaries. This demonstration will test a proven and intensive program designed to reduce or reverse the progression of cardiovascular disease (CAD) of patients at risk for invasive treatment procedures. The demonstration will be conducted over a 4-year period at an estimated 15 sites. Enrollment is limited to 1,800 Part B eligible Medicare beneficiaries who satisfy clinical admission criteria. We are preparing to expand this demonstration to at least one additional nationwide, multi-site cardiovascular lifestyle modification program. An announcement of this expanded demonstration to solicit interested programs is expected within the next several weeks. We will conduct an independent evaluation of both demonstrations to compare the short-term and long-term outcomes and costs in providing this type of service for Medicare beneficiaries.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 1395b-1(a)(1)(G) and (a)(2).
(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Program No. 93.774, Medicare--Supplementary Medical Insurance Program)
Dated: September 14, 1999.
Michael M. Hash,
Deputy Administrator, Health Care Financing Administration.
[FR Doc. 99-25416 Filed 9-28-99; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4120-01-P
Last Modified on Friday, September 17, 2004
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services