GAO STUDY OF ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS OF MEDICARE PROGRAM.

SEC. 6218. GAO STUDY OF ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS OF MEDICARE PROGRAM. (a) Study.—The Comptroller General shall conduct a study of the administrative burden of medicare regulations and program requirements on providers of services, fiscal intermediaries, and carriers, and shall include in such study— (1) an assessment of current administrative costs to such entities and of trends in such administrative costs since 1982; and (2) a comparison of the administrative burden to such entities in providing services to individuals who are not medicare beneficiaries. For purposes of such assessment, administrative costs shall include personnel costs, training costs, the costs of data and communications systems as affected by changes in requirements of the medicare program, and costs to such entities of non-compliance with such requirements resulting from the failure of the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide entities with adequate notice of changes in program requirements. 103 STAT. 2254 (b) Report.—Not later than March 31, 1990, the Comptroller General shall submit a report to the Committees on Ways and Means and Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Finance of the Senate on the study conducted under subsection (a).