HP Enterprise Services has received a task order worth up to $26m from the US Centres for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to maintain its integrated data repository (IDR) and provide data quality services to improve accuracy of medicare payment data.
HP said that task order is in support of the agency’s administration of Medicare and Medicaid electronic health records (EHR) incentive programs created by Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act.
As per the terms of agreement, HP will provide CMS with national level repository (NLR) data to make Medicare incentive payment determinations for eligible health care professionals and hospitals under the EHR incentive programs.
HP will also ensure that payment grade data is provided to NLR by establishing data reconciliation, audits and reporting processes to validate IDR data.
In addition, to ensure accuracy of IDR data, HP will provide quality analysis of data, maintain existing production IDR database environment, provide CMS with guidance and recommendations, create automated processes, adhere CMS database standards, and merge physical data models into a single data model.
HP Enterprise Services US Public Sector SVP Dennis Stolkey said the company will assist CMS in the maintenance, management and integration of large volumes of Medicare data.
