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R -- DESIGN FOR EVALUATION OF THE N.Y. MEDICARE GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION PAYMENT DEMONSTRATION AND RELATED PROVISIONS IN P.L. 105-33 WITH OPTIONS TO CONDUCT THE EVALUATIONS SOL HCFA-98-014/PK POC Paula Kolick, Contract Specialist, 410-786-5165 The Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) has a requirement for a contractor to provide HCFA with recommendations for designing an evaluation of the HCFA waivers provided to several New York state teaching hospitals in 1997. These hospitals volunteered to reduce the number of resident physicians in training by 20 percent or more over a five year period. In developing the design for evaluating this initial phase of the demonstration, the contractor is expected to also provide recommendations on how to evaluate Phase II of the New York demonstration and for evaluating the effects of the provisions in the Balanced Budget Act (BBA) of 1997 which concern graduate medical education (particularly Section 4626 "Incentive Payments Under Plans for Voluntary Reduction in the Number of Residents" and Section 4628 "Demonstration Project on Use of Consortia"). HCFA plans to exercise options for conducting the evaluation of the New York Medicare GME payment and for the evaluation of the changes in Medicare payment provisions made by the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 after acceptance of the contractor's design work. The Government anticipates a 6-month period of performance, plus 60 months from date of award of the Options to conduct the evaluations. Requests for the RFP must be in writing and marked ATTN: RFP-HCFA-98-014/PK, Paula Kolick, Room C2-21-15. Telephone requests will not be honored. Requests for the solicitation document must be in writing and received fifteen (15) calendar days from date of publication of this synopsis. (0121)

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