The Lewin Group Will Continue to Support CMS Efforts to Measure Improper Payments in Medicaid and CHIP
Date Posted : May 29. 2019
The Lewin Group (Lewin) received a contract to continue to perform statistical, sampling and error rate calculations for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Payment Error Rate Measurement (PERM) program. Lewin has been a proven resource for CMS’ statistical PERM program work under past contractual agreements.
Lewin is honored to partner with CMS to assist in identifying opportunities to improve state Medicaid programs through the PERM program. With rising health care costs on everyone’s mind, Lewin is able to bring our years of expertise to provide CMS and states with actionable, data-driven insights that help improve health care programs that millions of Americans rely upon.
PERM measures claims and eligibility improper payments in state Medicaid fee-for-service and managed care, and Children’s Health Insurance Programs (CHIP) through statistical analysis of claims data, and the results of medical record, data processing and eligibility file reviews. Medicaid and CHIP program claims-level data are analyzed for consistency and compliance with federal legal and regulatory requirements. Lewin then works with CMS to produce a statistically valid error rate and reports that tell the story of the causes behind the error rates across programs and claims types.
About the Lewin Group
For nearly 50 years, the Lewin Group has provided health care and human services policy research, analytics and consulting to a number of federal and state clients. Lewin is a subsidiary of OptumServe and part of the UnitedHealth Group family of companies.
Lewin works closely with CMS to develop and maintain a number of quality and efficiency measures. We support CMS initiatives to improve the quality of care and reduce overall health care costs. Lewin has also been working with the Departments of Defense (DoD) and Veterans Affairs (VA). For the DoD and the VA, we develop and update evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. This helps provide consistent quality of care, reduce errors and improve health outcomes for veterans and service members.