The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in May launched an online competition to quickly and inexpensively develop a new module to help manage Medicaid programs.
If all goes according to plan, by the end of the year the challenge will produce a finished, open-source product at a cost of no more than $600,000 that could be used by any state to automate the process of screening Medicaid service providers.
The challenge, which is funded through the Office of Management and Budget’s Partnership Fund for Program Integrity Innovation, is part of an effort to change the way government develops and procures IT systems. It also could help bring some order and scale to the IT architecture behind the federally funded, state-run Medicaid system.
Source: GCN (http://s.tt/1gbyD)
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