CareToLive sends a Freedom of Information Request to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
July 6th, 2010 | Posted by Mike Kearney
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Today, CareToLive sent a FOIA request to:
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Office of Strategic Operations and Regulatory Affairs
Freedom of Information Group
Room N2-20-16
7500 Security Boulevard
Baltimore, Maryland 21244-1850
The request was sent via Express Mail and was also sent via their website, http://www.cms.gov/foia/
Here is a copy of the request: ctl-foia-request.pdf
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October 8th, 2010 at 12:43 pm
Dear Care-to-Live:
Please pursue your efforts in find out out who pushed CMS to look into this. I believe that knowing who made the request will shed much to their real motivation. Good luck and keep us posted.
Thank you,
Bill
October 9th, 2010 at 2:31 pm
Hi Bill,
Thanks for posting. We are keeping after them. CMS acknowledged receiving our FOIA request and said it receives quite a few of them so we are on a first-in, first-out basis. We continue to monitor their website with the Control # they gave us and here is what it says today:
FOIA request referred to program office(s) for responsive records search, fee estimate, and direct reply to requester
Projected Date of Response:
Undetermined
Date of Response:
Not available at this time
We will keep after them because, like you, we want to know who pushed CMS into this.
Thanks again,
Mike Kearney
Spokesperson for CareToLive, a not for profit corporation