Issued by: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)

Issue Date: November 18, 2014

Program Area: Distributed Data Collection (DDC) for RA Including HCRP/EDGE Server

Question: Will carriers run EDGE server calculations when data is posted or will calculations be automatically triggered?

Answer: The initial release of the EDGE software will only include the file processing application. The file processing application will run all of the submitted data through a series of edit checks and will provide issuers with detailed reports on the accept/reject status of each record. For issuers using the Amazon EDGE server, file processing will be initiated automatically on the server each time an issuer uploads a file on the server. For issuers using an On-Premise EDGE server, file processing can be manually triggered by running an ingest command or may be automated by creating a CRON job. By the end of 2014, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will release an updated version of the EDGE application that includes the Reinsurance (RI) and Risk Adjustment (RA) software to perform program specific calculations. The RA and RI calculations will be initiated by CMS via command scripts.

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