CMS
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services -- CMS administers the Medicare and Medicaid programs, which provide health care to about one in every four Americans. Medicare provides health insurance for more than 43.8 million elderly and disabled Americans. Medicaid, a joint federal-state program, provides health coverage for some 49.1 million low-income persons, including 23.5 million children, and nursing home coverage for low-income elderly. CMS also administers the State Children's Health Insurance Program that covers more than 4.2 million children. Established as the Health Care Financing Administration: 1977. Headquarters: Baltimore, Md. Web sites:
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/default.asp?
- Employees -- 4,538
- Administrator (Acting) -- Leslie V. Norwalk, Esq.
- FY 2007 Budget -- $569.8 billion