MICCA

Administers of federal Medicare and MedicAid programs have traditional concerns with the issues of recipient and provider location data, tracking of compensations, and continual updates to participant address changes. These concerns get exponential when a state has to confront natural or manmade disasters. DBS offers a solution for streamlining the incoming and collected address data, forecasting impacts of such incidents and response mechanisms with available technology to minimize the exposure of these impacts to the general participating public.

MICCA creates a system to cross check and refine the discrepant and at times ambiguous address information captured from POS Systems, and provides a medium to update MEDS, and provide zip codes. The system can further aid in reconciling or, at least, interface with the Medicaid Eligibility Determination System (MEDS) for tying in the eligibility criteria and beneficiaries details.

Projects will involve setup of an application at the department of health Medicaid section under the guidance of Asst. Section Chief. This will aid the director's office in forecasting damage based on prior incidents, use data for effectively teaming providers and recipients. It will also allow for the review of provider compensations and aid in better-managed care to the participating public.

Need:
MICCA provides has compiled a special database for the participating public utilizing the POS system. The system can provide their address information to the department in a multitude of fashions, including the web, an eligible field office, or direct mail to the department. Most of this address information filled by the general pubic and collected via various channels is flawed in some way, shape, or form and, it presents significant problems in reconciling the recipient information with MEDS database and pairing the providers in the vicinity for the best possible care. This application will allow the department to quickly and effectively review the recipient and provider data by civil jurisdictions and zip codes.

Key Benefits and Features:

Synchronization of addresses on the recipient and provider systems for UCC.
Tracking and locating providers.
Recording cleanup and address updates.
Data matching with the Postal Service Zip codes.
Viewing of servicing providers and billing providers.
Maintaining address histories.
Updating of data to MEDS for dissemination to various other client entities.
Aids in forecasting damage based on prior incidents.
Resulting in better managed care of the participating public.

Technology:
MICCA software developed by DBSysgraph Inc., of Metairie, Louisiana is a state-of-the-art information system (IS)-based application for mapping and displaying care rating and response data, for evaluating post-event damage, and for evaluating levels of response. This software application is designed for both rural and urban use. The system allows for querying of wide-ranging GIS-based physical data, environmental data, reference data, resource data and demographic data to be gathered and utilized by agencies and jurisdictions on local, state, and federal levels. The communicational ink capabilities and data-sharing abilities allow disaster relief and recovery efforts to be efficiently planned, effectively coordinated and successfully executed.

Additionally:

MICCA as an assessment application is capable of providing over time: a detailed baseline database of repetitive relocations and associated care costs. Providing an analytical tool to identify at risk recipients and analytical tools to most effectively provide critical care during an incident. Utilizing the damage statistics database and the systems functionality, agencies can evaluate a geographic locations financial vulnerability, and accurately and efficiently document the cost of natural and man-made incidents, as well as estimate/forecast care costs based on historic data.
To successfully navigate today's difficult business environment, health agencies need to accurately assess their vulnerabilities and effectively forecast financial exposure to natural disasters such as floods and earthquakes as well as identify at-risk populations.

Features:
MICCA Provides agencies with tools to document, evaluate, and utilize data such that qualitative decisions can be derived.

An application with unlimited potential as both a strategic planning support tool and a recovery management operational tool.
A map-based system incorporated with a very high level of detail. Including the display of data for demographic and socio-economic evaluations. Which will assist the department with setup of new or improved criteria for service in designated areas.
The system is easy to understand and allows users to easily input and extract essential information when needed. Through on-line linkages, the system promotes coordination between agency personnel and local, state, and federal agencies.
A clean and simple task-oriented interface guides the user through sequences of actions by setting up tasks and linking them via contextual navigation. Auto-completion capable components also reduce the workload on the user. The processes efficiently direct the users towards the goal, imposing minimal cognitive load.
Utilizes GIS-technology, decision-support tools, and advanced real time data link capabilities. The result is a comprehensive next-generation disaster mitigation and assessment application.
This comprehensive decision support system provides agencies with the ability to input, access, comprehend, and communicate quality data to make informed and responsible damage assessment decisions.
The system utilizes advanced technology to develop detailed databases, create summary tables and reports, and to graphically plot these results in a single environment.
The application offers a remarkable multi-jurisdictional communication link. This communication link allows data sharing, so that disaster damage is rapidly collected and properly assessed. Corrective actions may then be effectively planned, coordinated and executed.
The application can function well in both single-user and multi-user systems.

Typical Turnkey Implementation: Needs Assessment deals with primary investigation of data existing at both state level in the MEDS Database and the eligibility field offices. This is a critical step to ensure that the MICCA application has all the collected attributes replicated in its data structure.

Mapping Local Jurisdictions: Consists of gathering local level data from various federal, state and local agencies, DBS will not generate this local data, but provides expertise to compile the data in a format that allows for cross reference and layering of the data. This includes data such as roads, major/minor civil jurisdictions (cities, towns, incorporated and unincorporated area) postal zip areas, us postal zip codes, demographic and socio-economic data, railroads, and landmarks. DBS will do its best efforts to provide the latest data from local agencies.

Address Data Refinement: Consists of batch correction of address data collected from various sources. Based on recipient name, unique identifier, street, city, state and zip, data will be filtered to ensure proper zip, city and street matches.

Database Customization: Based on functional requirements of the director's office identified via Task 1, DBS in concert with section chief will identify the most effective strategy to collect the identified data and formats in which data should be compiled. Thus creating a single database of all the compiled information, aiding in faster and accurate analysis of problem areas. DBS will modify/edit/enhance the base database provided with MICCA to accommodate the special needs of the client. DBS expects to spend no more than 80 hours in making such amendments.

Population of base data: DBS will collect and populate in the MICCA system with the data for the Hurricane Season from MMIS. It is assumed that MMIS has collected this data already and DBS will normalize data and load it in the system.

Application Customization: DBS offers up to 40 hours of customization to the product as part of the initial module purchase. Additional customization is dealt with as an extra at normal billable rates for various categories.

Application Installation: DBS will install the application on 2 client machines and 1 server at the MMIS office. In addition, DBS will provide 2 laptop units with application setup on it for use in the field with respective security features, so the local agency can collect and upload data to MMIS. Additional licenses of MICCA are available and can be priced upon request.

Training of Users: DBS will spend a total of 4 days at the state level to train staff members in the use and routine maintenance of the application. Similarly, users at a local level will also be trained in the use of the system and data gathering procedures.

Annual Maintenance: DBS will provide online support to users for a period of 1 year. Onsite support of 40 hours will be provided as part of the base software. Additional support will be provided in increments of 4-hour blocks with each 4-hour block priced at $500. Mileage to be billed separately.