Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
Conditions of Participation
CMS Mission:
To assure health care security for beneficiaries.
CMS Vision:
In serving beneficiaries, we open our programs to full partnership with the entire health community to improve quality and efficiency in an evolving health care system.
CMS Goals:
- Protect and improve beneficiary health and satisfaction
- Foster appropriate and predictable payments and high quality care
- Promote understanding of CMS programs among beneficiaries, the health care community and the public
- Promote the fiscal integrity of CMS programs and be an accountable steward of public funds
- Foster excellence in the design and administration of CMS programs
- Provide leadership in the broader health care marketplace to improve health
Program Objectives
- Promote the fiscal soundness of CMS programs.
- Modernize and effectively manage CMS' information systems and technology
- Improve CMS' Medicare contractor management
- Design and maintain payment processes that pay claims only for covered, medically necessary services at correct payment amounts and in a timely manner
- Strengthen program safeguards
- Develop and refine payment systems to foster efficiency, promote innovative service delivery and appropriate utilization, and ensure access to care for beneficiaries