Wisconsin Awards HP $221 Million Medicaid Contract Extension
18 November 2013 - 1:45PM
Marketwired
Wisconsin Awards HP $221 Million Medicaid Contract Extension
HP Will Build on 36-Year Relationship to Help Badger State
Continue Its Healthcare Transformation
PALO ALTO, CA--(Marketwired - Nov 18, 2013) - HP Enterprise
Services (NYSE: HPQ) today announced the Wisconsin Department of
Health Services has signed a $221 million agreement for HP to
continue its 36-year relationship as the state's Medicaid fiscal
agent.
Under the terms of the five-year agreement, HP will help
Wisconsin continue to meet federal Medicaid requirements and
prepare for future healthcare transformation developments while
helping to reduce costs, improve service and maintain program
stability for healthcare providers and beneficiaries.
As Wisconsin's fiscal agent, HP will continue providing all
systems work and management of a decision support system and data
warehouse, which handles the analysis of more than 4 terabytes of
Medicaid data used to drive program decisions. HP also manages the
Wisconsin immunization registry program, which has been shared with
19 other states. Under the contract, HP also will manage a local
call center, financial and federal reporting, and support for the
state's drug rebate and estate recovery programs.
As part of this contract, HP will complete a system-wide
technology refresh with HP Superdome 2 servers, helping the agency
address its most demanding workload cost effectively. Designed to
scale from eight to 256 cores, the servers deliver a highly
resilient, mission-critical consolidation platform that will help
the department accommodate growth with maximum uptime, ensuring
consistent services.
Wisconsin's interChange Medicaid Management Information System
(MMIS), developed and implemented by HP, has become the model for
solutions sought by a number of other states. The HP interChange
MMIS is a multipayer system and has been successfully implemented
and federally certified in 13 states over the past decade. The
system offers the state flexibility and speed to make changes to
provider payment policies or eligibility rules in minutes rather
than months as required for mainframe systems.
The Wisconsin interChange system processes approximately 41
million provider claims and pays out more than $4.3 billion per
year. With more than 99 percent of claims submitted electronically
and with real-time online adjudication, interChange enables
Wisconsin's 73,500 enrolled Medicaid providers to focus more time
on the state's 1.15 million Medicaid members and less on
administration.
"Preparing for federal- and state-driven program changes
requires process and system modifications while maintaining smooth,
uninterrupted interaction with providers and beneficiaries," said
Susan Arthur, vice president, U.S. Health and Life Sciences, HP
Enterprise Services. "The HP team will continue to provide
Wisconsin with a flexible, reliable and cost- effective MMIS that's
ready for the future and helps enable the state to maintain its
quality Medicaid program."
HP is the nation's largest provider of Medicaid and Medicare
process management services, administering $140 billion in benefits
a year. It serves as the fiscal agent or principal IT provider for
Medicaid in 19 states. HP's U.S. healthcare experience spans payer,
government and life science communities.
HP's premier EMEA client event, HP Discover, takes place Dec.
10-12 in Barcelona, Spain.
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