The two year effort, valued at approximately $27 million, will significantly enhance PECOS and enable state governments to voluntarily adopt it as the Medicaid enrollment system for all providers and suppliers. PECOS is already the established system of record for Medicare providers and suppliers.

CGI Federal, Inc., a wholly-owned U.S. operating subsidiary of CGI Group Inc., today announced that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has chosen CGI to implement CMS’ Provider Enrollment Chain and Ownership System (PECOS) One-Stop-Shop release.

One-Stop-Shop represents the first information technology initiative to process Medicare and Medicaid business transactions at the national level since Medicare’s and Medicaid’s inception in 1965. In conjunction with the states, One-Stop-Shop will create a consolidated provider enrollment form to establish a common basis for much of the data collected while at the same time providing the flexibility, if necessary, to support state specific data that can be seamlessly integrated into the system. “While time and money will be saved as a result of increased operational efficiency, a major value to CMS, the states, providers/suppliers and US taxpayers will be a reduction in Medicare and Medicaid fraud and abuse,” said Dave Collignon, Vice-President, Public Sector Health, CGI.

“CMS has been a customer of CGI since 1998 and we are pleased that they are continuing to partner with us to help improve Medicare and Medicaid program efficiency,” said George Schindler, President, CGI Federal. “CGI brings its healthcare program expertise at both the national and state level to this important effort. CGI’s business is satisfying clients and this opportunity is an affirmation of the quality of work that CGI delivers to CMS. We look forward to continuing to support CMS through One-Stop-Shop and our other initiatives.”