# Medicare Program; Suggestion Program on Methods to Improve Medicare Efficiency
> **Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services** · Final rule with comment period. · Published 1999-11-26 · 64 FR 66396
## Document
- **Document number:** 99-30678
- **Category:** medicare
- **Sub-agency:** Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- **Federal Register citation:** 64 FR 66396
- **CFR reference:** 42 CFR 420
- **Publication date:** 1999-11-26
- **HHS docket:** HCFA-4000-FC
## Abstract

This final rule with comment period establishes a program to encourage individuals to submit suggestions that could improve the efficiency of the Medicare program. The rule implements section 203(c) of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. The intent of this rule is to encourage suggestions and to award, if we deem appropriate, monetary payments to individuals for suggestions that improve efficiency and produce monetary savings to the Medicare program.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1999/11/26/99-30678/medicare-program-suggestion-program-on-methods-to-improve-medicare-efficiency)
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