Indiana Awards $209 Million Medicaid Contract

EDS, Indiana's Medicaid partner since 1991, has been awarded a $209.9 million, 6.5-year contract to upgrade and continue to maintain the state's Medicaid Management Information System.

Among the upgrades are a Web-based tool that will enable health care providers to electronically enroll in the Medicaid program as well as a number of internal processes.
EDS will continue as fiscal agent to the state and its 27,000 health care providers, who care for more than 800,000 recipients and comprise the nation's 17th-largest Medicaid program.
The agreement includes a seven-month phase to design, develop, test and implement the additional features followed by a six-year management term.

The EDS solution will provide Indiana with enhanced transparency as it implements Gov. Mitch Daniels' package of Medicaid reforms such as the Healthy Indiana Plan, which provides health coverage to previously uninsured Indiana residents, and the movement of aged, blind and disabled residents to a care management model. It also will continue claims processing coverage for other Indiana health programs.

"At the conclusion of the procurement process, it was evident that EDS was able to bring great value and experience to the taxpayers of Indiana," said Mitch Roob, Family and Social Services Administration secretary. "The technology and insight that EDS has to offer will be a tremendous asset as we continue to make great strides in new, innovative programs, such as the Healthy Indiana Plan."