CMS seasoned staff going, going, gone?(Medicare Administration)(Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services)

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In a year of budget stringency like this one, it may not mean much in the end. But some Capitol Hill lawmakers have begun sounding alarms about the potential pitfalls of trying to administer the new, more complicated Medicare program that launches in 2006 with Medicare's traditionally low administrative funding and an aging workforce that could bolt for the doors at any time.

"Having the right people at [the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services] is key to the successful implementation of the program," said Sen. George Voinovich (R-OH) at an April 5 hearing of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs management-oversight subcommittee he chairs. "Even before passage of the Medicare Modernization Act, CMS was coping with administrative challenges."

Voinovich cited a National Academy of Social Insurance report that pointed out...

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