CMS awards NHA new contract to continue as the Medicare Secondary Payer Integration Contractor
We are pleased to announce that NHA has won its bid to continue its work as the Medicare Secondary Payer Integration Contractor (MSPIC) for another 5 years, CMS announced on Thursday.
Under the MSPIC contract, NHA will ensure that the five contractors who make up CMS’s Coordination of Benefits & Recovery (COB&R) program work in concert. Tasks include Program Release Management, Business Analysis, Program-wide Document Management, Security Oversight, Quality Assurance, Oversight, Outreach and Education.
NHA has served on the MSPIC contract for the past 11 years, first as a subcontractor before winning three successive bids as the prime contractor. Before that, NHA spent more than a decade working extensively with CMS supporting the COB and Medicare Secondary Payer programs in various capacities.
NHA has more than 100 employees in more than a dozen states throughout the country, providing a range of healthcare program support services, including program management, SDLC support, program integrity, audit and training. It currently has multiple contracts with different programs at CMS as well as the state health agencies in New York and Maryland.
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