HITECH PFDC

The PFDC is responsible for assisting CMS in making incentive payments to Medicare EPs and hopsitals under the ARRA HITECH Act. As required under the HITECH Act, CMS must begin making incentive payments in FY20111 to Medicare EPs and hopsitals for a period of five years. CMS intends to use a PFDC to assist in preparing and processing these HITECH payments and to ensure proper funds control and accounting related to these payments. The total period of performance for the PFDC includes a two year base period plus three one year options; this funding action is to add new funding to the remaining second year of base period in order to provide additional staff and resources to support additional manual and systems change work associated resolivng payment errors and compensating for problems with the NLR. This is a modification to the current contract that is utilizing ARRA funds. It is estimated that an additional $500k will be necessary to execute the changes that will support the above incentive payments successfully.