CMS MACBIS (Medicaid & CHIP Business Information and Solutions)
Investment ID: 009-000316503
Overview
Program Title
CMS MACBIS (Medicaid & CHIP Business Information and Solutions)
Description
MACBIS will transform Medicaid and CHIP information and data gathering, submission, storage and extraction processes from a disparate, multi-layered, non-relational and manual paper based process to an electronic, automated process.
Type of Program
Major IT Investments
Multi-Agency Category
Not Applicable
Investment Detail
One area of quantifiable costs savings is the sun setting of the current MACBIS legacy systems that are operating with close to end-of-life technology. As the MACBIS pillars are developed in the AWS cloud, DSG will reduce costs associated with hosting at the VDC, LDC and BDC. Qualitative impacts include the ability to operate and maintain a new robust system which takes a paper-based program and fully automates it, both CMS and the states will obtain accurate and timely information, enhancing the ability of states to report accurate and timely information and provide more timely data to states. The ability to easily and rapidly implement new and changed legislation and mandates to ensure continued accuracy in the reporting of Medicaid expenditures at applicable FMAP rates; provide critical financial information required to ensure fiscal integrity of the Medicaid program is maintained ;implement expanded Medicaid and CHIP program integrity and fraud detection capabilities required by Center for Program Integrity as well as support legislative change, implementation of regulations, remediate system issues and expand functions of the systems. Ability to interface with other agency financial systems, particularly HIGLAS and other FMG tools and processes that they are unable to integrate data and also provide the ability to give a complete, quality and robust data set to stakeholders.