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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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2 Responses to “CareToLive sends a Freedom of Information Request to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services”

  1. 1.
    Bill
    Says:

    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

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  2. 2.

    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

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