SOURCES SOUGHT
R -- Medicare and Medicaid Cost Reporting
- Notice Date
- 6/12/2014
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541219
— Other Accounting Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Indian Health Service, Division of Acquisition Policy, 801 Thompson, TMP 605, Rockville, Maryland, 20852, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20852
- Solicitation Number
- IHS-14-HQ-SS-00010
- Archive Date
- 6/19/2014
- Point of Contact
- Reginald A. Lee, Phone: 3014432496, Vito Pietanza, Phone: 301-443-4938
- E-Mail Address
-
reginald.lee@ihs.gov, vito.pietanza@ihs.gov
(reginald.lee@ihs.gov, vito.pietanza@ihs.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- REQUEST FOR INFORMATION for Medicare and Medicaid Cost Reporting THIS IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ONLY. This is NOT a solicitation for proposals, proposal abstracts, or quotations. All responses will be used for market analysis in determining the availability of potential qualified businesses that may be used to determine the appropriate acquisition strategy. No solicitation is being issued at this time, but will be issued at a later date. Background: The IHS provides comprehensive primary health care and disease prevention services to approximately 2.1 million American Indians and Alaska Natives through a network of over 632 hospitals, clinics, and health stations on or near Indian reservations. Facilities are predominantly located in rural primary care settings and are managed by IHS, Tribal, and Urban Indian health programs. The IHS provides a wide range of clinical, public health and community services primarily to members of 566 federally recognized Tribes. Under special legislative authority, Social Security Act (SSA), Title 18 and Title 19, the IHS is eligible for Medicare and Medicaid payment for services provided to these beneficiaries. The IHS is required to submit Medicare cost reports (Method A) to establish inpatient and outpatient Medicare and Medicaid rates used as the basis to set Medicare and Medicaid rates for reimbursement. Over $1 billion annually in collections from Medicare and Medicaid is used to maintain its current level of health care. The IHS requires the services of a Contractor to complete 42 Medicare hospital cost reports, IHS wide management cost analyses, documented explanations of cost variances for determining the cost of delivering health care and developing specific reimbursement rates used by IHS, Tribal hospitals, and clinics. In addition, this includes allocating Headquarters (HQs) and Home Office costs to areas and hospital facilities. The Contractor must develop separate rates for 9 Critical Access Hospitals (CAH) based on a separate financial analysis. In order to properly allocate ancillary costs, the Contractor must conduct a chart cost audit to develop a statistical ratio split of ancillary costs between inpatient and outpatient service categories in Option Year 1 and Option Year 4 of the contract. The Contractor shall develop and deliver Medicare cost reports, management cost analyses, cost report variances/explanations, support to determine the cost of delivering health care and developing recommendations on cost of care for Medicare and Medicaid to support rate setting, CAH financial analysis, and an ancillary cost ratio development. Interested firms are requested to provide their aforementioned information, along with interest and capability statements. No pricing input is being requested. The Government requests interested parties submit a written response to this notice which includes: 1. Company name and a brief description of their company's business size (i.e. annual revenues and employee size) 2. Company point of contact, mailing address, telephone and fax numbers, DUNS number, and website address 3. Name, telephone number, and e-mail address of a company point of contact who has the authority and knowledge to clarify responses with Government representatives 4. Business status (i.e., Small Business, SDB, 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, WOB, etc.). Type of company is validated via the System for Award Management (SAM). All respondents must register on SAM located at https://www.sam.gov 5. Description of same/similar services offered to the Government and to commercial customers. Any responses involving teaming agreements should delineate between the work that will be accomplished by the prime and the work accomplished by the teaming partners. 6. Anticipated teaming arrangements (i.e. prime contractor/subcontractor, joint venture, mentor-protege relationship, etc.) 7. Applicable GSA Schedule number or other available procurement vehicle 8. Date Submitted Responses must be submitted not later than Wednesday, June 18, 2014, 12:00 P.M. (EST). Capability Statements will not be returned and will not be accepted after the due date. The maximum number of pages for submission is three (3) pages (excluding cover page). Capability statements should be e-mailed directly to both Points of Contact (POC) listed below. SUBMISSIONS WILL ONLY BE ACCEPTED VIA ELECTRONIC MAIL. Disclaimer and Important Notes: This notice does not obligate the Government to award a contract. Any information provided by industry to the Government as a result of this sources sought synopsis is strictly voluntary. Responses will not be returned. No entitlements to payment of direct or indirect costs or charges to the Government will arise as a result of contractor submission of responses, or the Government's use of such information or otherwise pay for the information provided in response. The Government reserves the right to use information provided by respondents for any purpose deemed necessary and legally appropriate. Any organization responding to this notice should ensure that its response is complete and sufficiently detailed to allow the Government to determine the organization's qualifications to perform the work. Respondents are advised that the Government is under no obligation to acknowledge receipt of the information received or provide feedback to respondents with respect to any information submitted. After a review of the responses received, a pre-solicitation synopsis and solicitation may be published on a government GPE. However, responses to this notice will not be considered adequate responses to a solicitation. Confidentiality: No proprietary, classified, confidential, or sensitive information should be included in your response. The Government reserves the right to use any non-proprietary technical information in any resultant solicitation(s). Primary POC: Reginald Lee, Contract Specialist Department of Health & Human Services/Indian Health Service Division of Acquisition Policy reginald.lee@ihs.gov Secondary POC: Vito Pietanza, Contract Specialist Department of Health & Human Services/Indian Health Service Division of Acquisition Policy vito.pietanza@ihs.gov
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