HP Enterprise Services has been awarded a contract worth up to $200m by the US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to provide application services that improve Medicare Part B claims processing as well as the delivery of healthcare services to beneficiaries.
The Medicare Part B Shared System Maintainer contract is for one base year with seven one-year renewal options.
Medicare’s Multi-Carrier System (MCS) is utilised by CMS’ Carriers and Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) to process approximately 750 million Medicare Part B claims annually.
Under the contract, HP will provide applications support and maintenance services, including full development life cycle support for system maintenance and enhancements.
HP services will offer production and user support for the processing of Medicare Part B claims, as well as MAC transition support.
In addition, HP will offer related system maintenance and transition support to the Healthcare Integrated General Ledger Accounting System.
The company said that it will consolidate processing cycles or establish new MACs system environments within the CMS enterprise data centres and develop new MCS system interfaces in support of the CMS National Level Repository.
