SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- Medicare Lockbox Ancillary Services
- Notice Date
- 10/28/2002
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, formerly known as the Health Care Financing Administration, Acquisition and Grants Group, 7500 Security Blvd. C2-21-15, Central Building, Baltimore, MD, 21244-1850
- ZIP Code
- 21244-1850
- Solicitation Number
- RFP-CMS-03-0002
- Archive Date
- 11/27/2002
- Point of Contact
- Scott Sturiale, Contract Specialist, Phone 410-786-2565, Fax 410-786-9643, - Linda Hook, Contract Specialist, Phone 410-786-8371, Fax 410-786-9922,
- E-Mail Address
-
ssturiale@cms.hhs.gov, LHook@cms.hhs.gov
- Description
- The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) intends to award a contract to Mellon Bank, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on a sole source basis for services performed in conjunction with the lockbox functions currently performed in the handling and processing of Medicare Part B Supplementary Medical Insurance (SMI) premiums. The Social Security Act requires Medicare beneficiaries to pay their monthly (SMI) premiums through deduction from their monthly benefit check (Social Security, Railroad Retirement or Office of Personnel Management). Section 1840 (e) provides that any individual who enrolls in the Medicare program, but does not receive a monthly benefit check from which the SMI premium can be deducted or does not have his or her SMI premiums paid by a State Medicaid Agency or Formal Group, shall pay his or her premium directly to the Secretary. These direct premium payments created a need for lockbox services. In 1984, the U.S. Treasury designated Mellon Bank, to be CMS?s lockbox contractor to handle these direct premium payments. The contract is for the receipt and processing of beneficiary premium payments (checks, money orders, Automated Clearing House (ACH) and credit cards). Along with the premium payments, the lockbox bank receives various types of correspondence, requiring some level of attention. This contract will cover the services required to handle and process the correspondence, creating a history of processed check, money orders and ACH authorization forms on CD-ROM, and customer servicing for rejected ACH and credit card payments. This contract will be awarded for a period of one year, with four one-year option periods. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals.
- Record
- SN00194741-W 20021030/021028213217 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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