The $172 million contract renewalawarded by the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration will help the state move to a managed care environment, the HP announcement said, and will help prepare for pending health-care changes by implementing Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act 5010 requirements and is supporting the move to ICD-10 procedure coding.
Since 2008, Florida has utilized HP’s interchange Medicaid Management Information System. The state’s system processes more than $20 billion worth of Medicaid claims each year for nearly 114,000 state health-care providers.
HP said it has also implemented Web-based provider enrollment, claims authorization and a file exchange system in Florida and has helped with the implementation of electronic health records in the state.
The state’s Medicaid program serves 3 million Florida residents and the Agency for Health Care Administration is responsible for licensure of the state’s 41,000 health-care facilities.
