AWARD
B -- Assess IHS &Tribal Medicaid Collections and Potential For Increasing Such
- Notice Date
- 10/2/2012
- Notice Type
- Award Notice
- NAICS
- 541690
— Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Program Support Center, Division of Acquisition Management, 12501 Ardennes Avenue, Suite 400, Rockville, Maryland, 20857, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20857
- Solicitation Number
- 12-233-SOL-00462
- Archive Date
- 10/5/2012
- Point of Contact
- Jennifer Eskandari, Phone: 3014433516
- E-Mail Address
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jennifer.eskandari@psc.hhs.gov
(jennifer.eskandari@psc.hhs.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Award Number
- HHSP233201200466P
- Award Date
- 9/20/2012
- Awardee
- California Rural Indian Health Board
- Award Amount
- $29,097
- Description
- Justification for Other than Full and Open Competition Expertise Related to Use and Analysis of Indian Data 1. Requesting Agency: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) Action Requested: ASPE is submitting an iProcurement Requisition, a description of work to be performed including a cost estimate to the Program Support Center (PSC) for a small professional services contract to obtain expertise to assist ASPE in developing and analyzing Medicaid provider payment data regarding IHS and tribal health facilities. We request that a professional services contract be awarded as a sole-source award to the California Rural Indian Health Board (CRIHB). 2. Contact information for CRIHB: James Crouch, MPH Executive Director, California Rural Indian Health Board 4400 Auburn Blvd., 2nd Floor Sacramento, CA 95841 3. Summary Description: This contract will provide the government with expert advice and technical assistance on the use of data regarding IHS and tribal facilities within the Medicaid State Information System (MSIS), analyses of data tables extracted from that system, and a written report and briefings for HHS and tribal audiences. We anticipate that CMS and IHS, through discussions with the CMS Tribal Technical Advisory Group, would use the results of this project to develop strategies to assist IHS and tribal health programs to increase their Medicaid collections to help these programs better address persistent health disparities within otherwise tight budget circumstances. 4. Specific Description of Work Required of the Contractor (CRIHB): (1) provide input and advice to ASPE and another contractor, under a separate contract, regarding the most useful levels of detail, aggregations and sub-totals for the data tables this other contractor will produce by extracting data from MSIS, as well as appropriate caveats for using and interpreting the data; (2) provide information to ASPE and the other contractor that defines the geographic boundaries of the 12 IHS Areas, so that the other contractor can produce data tables by IHS Area as well as by State; (3) analyze the series of very detailed data tables produced by the other contractor for trends over time and by provider and service types and demographic variables to identify similarities and differences and their potential implications for the future for IHS and tribal Medicaid collections under current Medicaid rules and under the FY 2014 Medicaid eligibility expansion; (4) produce a narrative report with simplified data tables; and (5) develop and present briefings to HHS and tribal audiences. 5. Justification: CRIHB, a tribal organization, under the leadership of Mr. James Crouch, its Executive Director, and with his associate, Dr. Carol Korenbrot, Ph.D., a bio-statistician formerly with the University of California, San Francisco, has extensive experience and a unique level of specific expertise in identifying and examining the completeness and accuracy of health care and other data related to American Indians and Alaska Natives and the specialized Indian health and general health care providers who serve them. Mr. Crouch and Dr. Korenbrot have unmatched breadth and depth of knowledge on Indian data in specialized and generalized data sets, including its limitations and other special considerations in how to use it appropriately, and a well-known reputation for interpreting the data objectively. Their work has included in-depth analyses of both claims data and survey data, conducting in-depth analyses of such data for policy purposes. They both have extensive experience in preparing reports and conducting briefings to communicate their findings and policy impacts and options to CMS, IHS, ASPE, and tribal audiences. Since 2007, they have produced a series of national reports for CMS on Indian Medicaid, Medicare, and related data and their implications which are widely recognized as the authoritative sources on these subjects. They also coordinated a national Indian Data Symposium on these subjects. While this contract is not a follow-on project in the strict sense, since it would be issued by ASPE (not CMS), it is a logical next step in this overall body of work, and serves very similar purposes in informing HHS and tribal policy discussions and decisions. 6. Recommendation: ASPE recommends that an "Other than Full and Open Competition" process be used to accomplish the Department's immediate tasks described here.
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