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R -- UPDATING THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ACG/ADG RISK ADJUSTMENT METHODS FOR MEDICARE RISK CONTRACTING SOL RPF-HCFA-00-054VAC POC V. Antoinette Coleman, Contract Specialist, (410) 786-6485 In accordance with FAR 6.302-1, the Health Care Financing Administration?s(HCFA) Office of Strategic Planning intends to negotiate on a non-competitive basis with the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Hygiene and Public Health. The purpose of this request is to provide technical consulting and analytic services to HCFA so that HCFA may better assess and evaluate the JHU Ambulatory Care Group/Ambulatory Diagnostic Group (ACG/ADG) model as an option for a potential Medicare+Choice payment system. The specific purpose is for JHU to revise, extend and recalibrate the ACG/ADG model on more recent Medicare data and provide HCFA with the up to date software and recalibration. Under this contract, JHU will make refinements to the ACG/ADG-Husdom model, recalibrate the revised product, using more recent data with the goal of improving performance using Medicare data for payment purposes. The proposed period of performance is 18 months from date of contract award. Telephone requests will not be honored. For informational purposes only, RFP package is not available. See numbered Note The Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) intends to negotiate, on a sole source basis, with the Computer Corporation of America (CCA) for products currently installed at the HCFA Data Center on IBM mainframe computers. The current configuration of IBM9021/942 and IBM 9672/R64 computers with a MIP rating of 400 are to be upgraded to IBM 9672/T26 and IBM 9672/R36 computers with a MIP rating of 583. CCA is the only responsible source that can provide the software upgrades to fulfill this requirement. RFP is unavailable. Posted 08/01/00 (D-SN480778). (0214)

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