Healthcare Technology and News: Alabama Medicaid System Earn Federal Certification with HP's Help

Alabama’s Medicaid Management Information System, which was designed and built by HP and the Alabama Medicaid Agency, has received full federal certification, HP has announced in a press release.

 

With this certification, Alabama can receive the maximum federal funding for the operation of the system. The certification by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is retroactive to the system’s first day of operation. From roughly 14,000 Alabama healthcare providers, the MMIS quickly and accurately processes about 30 million claims worth about $3.5 billion a year.

 

By managing more than 1 million applications for our clients in various industries around the world, and maintaining more than 2.3 billion lines of code, HP Enterprise Services is a proven technology ally working behind the scenes to help businesses and government agencies succeed, claims HP.

 

“The successful implementation and certification of the Alabama MMIS reflects HP’s ongoing commitment to quality for healthcare providers, beneficiaries and taxpayers,” said Barbara Anderson, vice president, State and Local Healthcare, HP Enterprise Services. “It underscores HP’s ability to bring together more than four decades of Medicaid experience with proven technology to help states like Alabama meet their healthcare goals.”

 

To expedite processing and provider payment, the system offers real-time online adjudication of electronic claims. Also, to ensure that medical services are being provided to Medicaid-eligible patients, it streamlines eligibility verification for providers. Apart from this the system increases providers’ access to important healthcare information to ensure more thorough medical treatment and provides state Medicaid employees with faster and more secure access to key program information.

 

Recently, the company revised its previously-announced first-quarter results as a result of litigation involving EDS, which the company acquired in 2008, resulting in a negative impact on its first quarter net earnings of approximately $73 million, or $0.03 per diluted share. EDS is a defendant in a 2004 lawsuit filed in the United Kingdom by Sky Subscribers Services Ltd and British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) relating to a project awarded to EDS in 2000.

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