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Article: EDS Subsidiary Awarded $148 Million CMS Contract for Medicare Administrative Services to Northwest.
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- July 2, 2008
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HERNDON, Va., July 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- EDS today announced that the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has awarded its subsidiary, NHIC, Corp., a $148 million contract to administer Part A and Part B Medicare claims payments to health care providers in four northwestern states. The contract is for one year with four 1-year options and will serve approximately 54,000 physicians and practitioners and 233 Medicare hospitals within Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington.
NHIC will provide a variety of important Medicare administrative functions for hospitals, skilled nursing facilities and physicians in the regions and will be the providers' ...