South Dakota Medicaid Selects FourThought Group

FourThought Group will accomplish planning appropriate to alter the South Dakota's Department of Social Services' 24-year-old Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS). An important allotment of this activity is ciphering the amount and allowances of the backup options.

Pierre, SD -- South Dakota awarded FourThought Group (4TG) a arrangement to do the capital planning appropriate to alter the Department of Social Services (DSS) 24-year-old Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS) with an MMIS that is able abundant to abutment the evolving business needs of the South Dakota’s Medicaid program.

“To accommodated South Dakota’s needs, we apparent VisionStep, our latest addition for planning, designing and managing healthcare arrangement implementations,” said 4TG Executive Consultant Robin Mathias.

VisionStep is the aftereffect of 16 years of acquaintance as the arch ascendancy of collective appliance architecture in the Medicaid market, two years of alive with our anticipate catchbasin of Medicaid leaders, acute captivation with the development of Medicaid Information Technology Architecture (MITA), and the accumulated ability of our consulting and activity administration staff. VisionStep includes specialized accoutrement to abutment every footfall of an MMIS backup project. From antecedent visioning to final testing, VisionStep combines complete alignment with different accoutrement and applied information. Because the accoutrement and alignment are chip every footfall of the way, the aftereffect is a smooth, well-managed project.

Rod Kranzler, MMIS Project Manager for DSS, said that VisionStep is what fabricated 4TG so attractive. "VisionStep demonstrates acumen into MITA and responds to South Dakota's different needs," he said.

FourThought Group has been called to abetment the State of South Dakota with the MMIS backup planning process. As the abstruse abetment contractor, 4TG will:

 

Establish cardinal administration all-important to adapt for MMIS replacement. Identify and appraise MMIS backup options. Develop cost/benefit and accident appraisal for backup options. Gather and ascertain State’s accepted and approaching MMIS business and technology needs. Develop an accomplishing advanced planning certificate and appeal for proposals for the design, development and accomplishing phase. Assist with RFP evaluation, bell-ringer alternative and arrangement negotiation.
"Only FourThought Group offered an chip set of accoutrement and methods to abutment the absolute accretion process," said Jessica Malone, Assistant Director of DSS Medical Services.

About FourThought Group

FourThought Group is a admired anticipation baton in the government healthcare marketplace. They appearance the approaching of Medicaid technology through their administration as allotment of the MITA team. 4TG combines insight, addition and candor to advance their clients’ business outcomes. 4TG’s consultants are accustomed leaders in artifice control, MITA, accommodation support, MMIS planning, HIPAA, and absolute validation and verification.

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