R -- THIRD PARTY REIMBURSEMENT TRAINING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO HRSA COMMUNITY BASED GRANTEES

Notice Date

March 23, 2001

Contracting Office

5600 Fishers Lane, Room 13A-19 Rockville, MD 20857

ZIP Code

20857

Solicitation Number

HRSA 250-OA-11(1)

Point of Contact

Suzanne Stinson 301-443-5130

E-Mail Address

clikc here to contact the contract specialist via (sstinson@hrsa.gov)

Description

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has a requirement to award a contract to an offeror who can provide Third Party Reimbursement Training and Technical Assistance to HRSA Community Based Grantees. The objective of the work is to: 1) strengthen HRSA grantee ability to establish or maintain an effective third-party reimbursement system and receive appropriate reimbursements from third party payors, particularly Medicaid, SCHIP, Medicaid and SCHIP managed care programs, Medicare, as well as other private and other potential payors; 2) train and offer technical assistance to HRSA community based grantees to establish or maintain an effective third-party reimbursement system particularly from Medicaid and SCHIP; and 3) increase the capacity of HRSA grantees to fully serve their communities by assuring that grant dollars are used for the care of the uninsured and underinsured community members. The offeror must demonstrate the ability to: 1) Train the variety of HRSA community based grantees in one and one-half day training sessions on how to establish and maintain an effective third-party reimbursement system and understand pubic, particularly State Medicaid and SCHIP as well as Medicare, and private reimbursement requirements and procedures to effectively claim reimbursements; 2) Develop a flexible curriculum to train the full range of HRSA community based grantees who serve underserved populations and Federal staff, addressing the factors HRSA grantees must use to successfully claim third party reimbursements from public and private payors. A curriculum must include the unique factors utilized by the State in which the grantees are located for claiming reimbursement from State programs such as Medicaid, SCHIP, and Medicaid and SCHIP managed care. 3) Develop and offer a program of technical assistance to individual HRSA grantees and small clusters of grantees that complement the training programs. 4) Assist HRSA to develop in-house expertise in central and field offices on third-party reimbursement issues and address State and Federal policies and issues by providing one day field office training sessions in each of the 10 HRSA field office and in the HRSA central office. 5) Develop and distribute technical assistance tools and training materials to include print and Web-based formats. 6) As directed by the Project Officer, make presentations or conduct a training program at national, regional, or State meetings and conferences of HRSA grantees or associations representing HRSA grantees. The solicitation will be issued on or about April 10, 2001. You may be able to access the solicitation electronically at the following location on the web: www.hrsa.dhhs.gov/contract.htm. If you are able to download the solicitation electronically, please submit your name, address and phone number to this office so that you can be included on our source list. (It is the offeror's responsibility to monitor the above internet site for the release of this solicitation and amendments, if any). If you are NOT able to download the solicitation electronically, all requests for a hard copy of the solicitation must be in writing, to the attention of Suzanne Stinson and cite RFP No. HRSA 250-OA-11(1)sks. You may FAX your request to the attention of Suzanne Stinson at 301-443-6038. If you choose to FAX your request, please send the hard copy in the mail as the FAX copies are sometimes unreadable. Your written request for the solicitation should be mailed to the attention of Suzanne Stinson, HRSA, Room 13A-19, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, Maryland, 20857. The electronic mailing address is: sstinson@hrsa.gov. All requests should include the name of the contact person, mailing address, telephone number, email address and FAX number in the body of the letter. Telephone requests for the solicitation cannot be honored.

Web Link

click here to download a copy of the RFP (www.hrsa.dhhs.gov/contract.htm)

Record

Loren Data Corp. 20010327/RSOL006.HTM (W-082 SN50H1Q5)