Medicare program; criteria and standards for evaluating common working file hosts--HCFA. General notice with comment period

This notice describes the criteria and standards to be used for evaluating the performance of Common Working File (CWF) hosts in the administration of the Medicare program, for the current evaluation period beginning June 1, 1991. The results of these evaluations will be considered whenever the Health Care Financing Administration enters into, renews/extends, or terminates a Medicare carrier contract which provides for the performance of CWF host services. Since these services are currently performed by Medicare carriers, this notice is published in accordance with section 1842(b)(2) of the Social Security Act which requires us to publish for public comment those criteria and standards against which we evaluate Medicare carriers.