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Secure .gov websites use HTTPS LDH is moving forward with a plan to distribute food benefits on EBT cards. If the USDA, who administers the SNAP program, is prepared and ready to move money into states’ accounts, we will use federal dollars to fund SNAP recipients’ accounts. If they are not ready, LDH will proceed with our state-funded program to provide food assistance to the elderly, the disabled, and households with children through their existing EBT cards.
July 20, 2011 RFP for Independent Verification and Validation Services
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, - The purpose of this RFP is to solicit proposals from qualified and experienced proposers that provide Independent Verification & Validation (IV & V) services for MMIS enterprises and MMIS replacement projects. The Louisiana Department of Health seeks to obtain an IV&V contractor to perform two areas of IV & V services: the monitoring of operations of the existing MMIS, and IV & V services for the Design, Development and Implementation (DDI) of a replacement MMIS. The MMIS Replacement Project DDI is intended to replace the entire MMIS Enterprise including, but not limited to, claims processing, pharmacy point of sale (POS), data warehouse (MARS/DW), authorized services, and other support systems with a state-of-the-art, HIPAA compliant, rules-driven, on-line, real-time, web-based MMIS that is versatile in its architecture, structure, and code to support the evolving business needs of Louisiana’s Medicaid program. The IV&V Contractor will verify the LDH chosen solution meets business and technical requirements in order to obtain CMS Certification for the chosen MMIS Replacement.