Fee for Service Beneficiary Data Streamlining (FFS BDS)
In June, 2011, the three shared system maintainers, HPES (MCS and FISS), ViPS (VMS) and 2020 (CWF) conducted a summit with CMS management representing a number of components. The maintainers collaborated to present improvement ideas, with the end goal of finding
efficiencies that would enable the CMS to get the greatest benefit from the programming hours contracted each quarter. The maintainers proposed to consolidate the FFS eligibility functionality (currently residing in
4 different systems) into one shared service, accessible at the beginning of the claims adjudication process. This new service would be used by all 4 systems to eliminate duplicate or unnecessary processing.
Subsequent discussions have taken place between the group of maintainers and CMS.
Final
Issued by: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Issue Date: November 02, 2012
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