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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced Sept. 12 it will change from a paper-based to a Web-based system for Medicare manual instructions. All of CMS' program instructions will now be available online at www.cms.hhs.gov/manuals, which links to the agency's “CMS Manual System.” The new online system will be organized by functional area — claims processing, entitlement, etc. — which CMS says will “eliminate significant redundancy within the manuals.” The agency said it would no longer publish paper program memoranda after Sept. 30.

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