Centers for Medicaid and Medicare The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare services is a federal agency within the department of health and human services. They work in partnership with state governments to administer Medicaid, the States Children’s Health Insurance Program and Health insurance portability standards. CMS oversee the administration simplification standards in long-term care facilities and clinical laboratory quality standards under the clinical laboratory improvement amendments. CMS serves over 90 million beneficiaries and has an approximate budget of about 60 billion dollars. The plan that they aim to use suggest that it will improve health care quality and lower cost. This outlines ways in which the agency can use significant influence in the healthcare market place to effect change and order to achieve their vision of a transformed, modernized healthcare system. They plan to offer Coverage, Wellness and Prevention, Care coordination, Health Information Technology and quality. They will do this by developing new advantage plans such as dual eligibility and chronic special needs plans. They will work with private sector plans, prescription drug plans to improve Medicare choices and awareness and prescription drug coverage. They will develop strategies for emergency preparedness and pandemic planning. Expand preventive screenings and reduce disparities in preventive services by measuring trends and statistics. They will support prescription drug plan sponsor’ efforts to improve coordination and implement a health care ledger system and identifier. Increase electronic claims using IT systems. They will also improve transparency and create incentives for consumers and providers to make cost effective choices in order to improve programs and support provider education and outreach programs to prevent overpayments and improper payments. A lady brings