Deltek Analyst Aila Altman reports.
While states have limited-time access to enhanced 90/10 federal funding, there is no better time than the present to integrate disconnected health and human services information technology systems. By submitting a federal cost allocation waiver, states have through the end of December 2015 to use funding generally slated solely for Medicaid to revamp or replace eligibility and enrollment systems that will account for the breadth of state-administered human services benefit programs, including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), child support, child welfare and child care.
On the federal side, the Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Child Support Enforcement (OSCE) is now heading up the Interoperability Initiative, designed to bring human services agencies together with Medicare, Medicaid, Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and health insurance exchanges (HIXs). OSCE’s vast experience with complex IT integration projects, upgrades and system replacements well prepares them to do the job. Currently, OSCE is busy planning and developing the following projects that make up the bulk of the Interoperability Initiative:
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