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The University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester is one of five campuses in the University of Massachusetts system. Established in 1962, UMass Medical School's mission is to achieve national distinction in health sciences education, research and public service, and, with its clinical partner, UMass Memorial Health Care, national distinction in clinical care.
Commonwealth Medicine, a division within UMass Medical School, is a multi-disciplinary health care endeavor that provides academic, clinical and financial expertise to state agencies to improve the delivery of state and local public assistance health programs.
The
Center for Health Care Financing
, founded in 1996, is one of many units that comprise Commonwealth Medicine. The Center's role in Commonwealth Medicine's coordinated state government effort is twofold:
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- The Center identifies and prepares claims for program services and administrative health-related expenditures made by state and local governments for which they are entitled to federal reimbursement. As an adjunct to this activity, the Center analyzes health services rate structures and makes recommendations for revisions to state rate methodologies.
- The Center implements projects to reduce overall state health-care costs by identifying and coordinating with other payers, including private and other federal insurers, who are legally liable for the cost of medical services provided to an individual.
Through Commonwealth Medicine, government agencies providing health-related services can access a broad range of health policy development and research resources, benefit management assistance, community outreach services, disability evaluation programs, information systems support, and clinical best-practices guidance.
Center for Health Care Financing
The Schraffts Center
529 Main Street, 3rd Floor
Charlestown, MA 02129-1120
(617) 886-8200
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