Northrop Grumman Corp. has opened a new building in suburban Baltimore to support the Social Security Administration and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the company announced Tuesday. Health and information technology division employees will work at the facility. Amy Caro, vice president for health information technology, said the company has more than 600 people [...]
CGI Federal has won a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services contract worth up to $93.7 million to build a health insurance exchange that is federally-facilitated, the company announced today. The contract to build Federal Exchange was awarded by CMS’ Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight. It has a two-year base value of $55.7 million with [...]
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has awarded CGI Federal a two-year, $8.9 million contract to design, develop and implement an information system for comparing rates and benefits from health insurance providers. The system will be developed for the CMS Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight and the information will be made available on Healthcare.gov. [...]
Northrop Grumman has reported a second milestone in support of the National Level Repository for the Medicare EHR Incentive Program. The NLR stores the attestation information and determines if the criteria for meaningful use have been met. The system calculates payment amounts for the Medicare eligible professionals and tracks and reports on EHR incentive payments [...]
HP Enterprise Services announced it was the recipient of a task order of up to $26 million from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. HP will provide data-quality services and maintain the CMS Integrated Data Repository, all of which will better ensure the accuracy of payments. The contract will be used to better implement [...]
In 2007, GAO found deficiencies in CMS’ internal control over administrative services contracts to implement the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA), which required CMS to start applying the FAR to its Medicare claims processing contracts, a process that MMA requires to be finished by fiscal ’11. GAO made nine recommendations [...]
Last Thursday, Reps. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.) and Tim Murphy (R-Pa.) introduced the HITECH Extension for Behavioral Health Services Act of 2010 HR 5025, a bill that would allow behavioral, mental health and substance abuse treatment providers to qualify for incentive payments for the “meaningful use” of electronic health records. The act would extend the 2009 [...]
