Medicare program; statistical standards for evaluating intermediary performance during fiscal year 1982--Health Care Financing Administration. General notice with comment period.

This is HCFAs annual notice containing statistical standards to be used for evaluating the performance of fiscal intermediaries in the administration of the Medicare program for fiscal year 1982. The standards were developed from available statistical data contained in routine intermediary reports and consists of measures of timeliness and of cost of an intermediary's Medicare operations. The results of the evaluations are considered whenever we make, renew or terminate an intermediary agreement; assign or reassing providers of services to an intermediary; or designate regional or national intermediaries.