Award of Part A/B Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) Contract for Jurisdiction H

CMS has announced the selection of Highmark Medicare Services Inc. as the new Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) for handling both Medicare Part A and Part B fee-for-service claims in Jurisdiction H, which includes the states of Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, and New Mexico. • CMS is forming Jurisdiction H by consolidating A/B MAC Jurisdictions 4 and 7. This change reflects the CMS MAC jurisdiction strategy, announced in 2010, to consolidate from 15 (fifteen) Part A/B MAC jurisdictions to 10 (ten) by 2016. • CMS expects to complete the transfer of the Medicare claims workloads for Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi to HMS in early 2012. CMS expects to complete the transfer of the Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas workloads administered by TrailBlazer to the A/B Jurisdiction H MAC contract by late July 2012.