RECOVERY - HITECH Incentive Payment Program for J13 MAC Part A/B - CLIN 0006

THIS NOTICE IS PROVIDED FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. This notice represents award of a modification to the existing contractor National Government Services, Inc. (NGS) under contract number HHSM-500-2008-M0004Z in the amount of $140,836 authorized under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION FOR OFFERS. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA, or Recovery Act) (Pub.L. 111-5) was signed into law on February 17,2009. The law includes the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH Act), which established programs to provide incentive payments for the "meaningful use" of certified electronic health record (EHR) technology. Included in these incentive payments (also known as HITECH payments) are payments to Medicare hospitals. The initial purpose of this initiative was to fund the contractor to collect and subsequently enter necessary data into the HITECH FISS screens for all Subsection (d) Hospitals by March 31, 2011. This initial data was obtained from the 12-month cost report filed at that time. As cost reports are continually accepted during the year, MAC's shall update the data in the FISS within 5 business days of acceptance (for those hospitals that have not yet attested and received their initial payment for that payment year). The purpose of this modification is to fund the contractor to continue these efforts. This contract action was not awarded as a fixed price type because uncertainties involved in contract performance did not permit costs to be estimated with sufficient accuracy to use any type of fixed price contract. As such, a cost-reimbursement type action was awarded(FAR 16.301-2).