Regional Offices

as per the U.S. National Health Insurance Act

H.R. 676 specifies that the regional offices will replace the current Medicare offices. The following list has the resulting regions. The following list of states for each region is still valid, as seen by the regional map; however, the responsibilities are currently defined by a different criteria. See farther down this web page for their current responsibilities if you want to get into those details.

Region 1 - Location: Boston
Responsibilities: Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont

Region 2 - Location: New York
Responsibilities: New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands

Region 3 - Location: Philadelphia
Responsibilities: Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia

Region 4 - Location: Atlanta
Responsibilities: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee

Region 5 - Location: Chicago
Responsibilities: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin

Region 6 - Location: Dallas
Responsibilities: Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas

Region 7 - Location: Kansas City
Responsibilities: Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska

Region 8 - Location: Denver
Responsibilities: Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming

Region 9 - Location: San Francisco
Responsibilities: American Samoa, Arizona, California, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Hawaii, Nevada

Region 10 - Location: Seattle
Responsibilities: Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Washington

DETAILS: Current Organizational Responsibilities of Medicare Offices:
Consortia instead of Regional …
(details that may be of interest to some activists)

The responsibilities of the regional offices changed in February 2007.

The Medicare Modernization Act appears to be a key reason for an increase in organizational complexity. That law has partly privatized Medicare and is scheduled to privatize Medicare even MORE. You can learn more about this change at Wrong Direction.

Fact and Comment. One example is the newly created consortium is titled “Consortium for Medicare Health Plans Operations.” That consortium is the “focal point for all interactions with (hundreds of for-profit health insurance companies).” That is an entirely new responsibility that makes the federal government’s role in controlling waste, fraud and abuse much more complex and difficult.

Reference:
Regional Map is still the same as before.
The “Regional Office Overview” (formerly with the old web link of http://www.cms.hhs.gov/RegionalOffices/) of CMS, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is now titled “CMS Consortia”.

Health Care Financing in the United States Needs to Become Simple Instead of Becoming More Complex, as indicated in the DETAILS above.