From a CMS press release March 18, 2008:
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today announced that National Government Services (NGS) has been awarded a contract of up to five years for the combined administration of Part A and Part B Medicare claims payment in Connecticut and New York.. . .
NGS will serve as the first point of contact for the processing and payment of Medicare fee-for-service claims from hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, physicians and other health care practitioners in the two states. The new Part A/Part B Medicare Administrative Contractor (A/B MAC) was selected using competitive procedures in accordance with federal procurement rules.
The new contractor will take claims payment work now performed by two fiscal intermediaries and four carriers in the two states. The A/B MAC contract, which has an approximate value of $323 million over five years, will fulfill the requirements of the Medicare Modernization Act’s (MMA) contracting reform provisions.
Read the full press release here.