PricewaterhouseCoopers Wins Contract to Integrate Medicare Accounting Systems

October 8, 2001 PricewaterhouseCoopers Wins Contract to Integrate Medicare Accounting Systems Medicare's many outdated accounting systems will be combined into a single, unified system to better ensure that the program pays correctly for Medicare beneficiaries' health care. The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in September 2001 awarded a 10-year, $328.4 million contract to PricewaterhouseCoopers to begin developing and pilot-testing the new system.  The Healthcare Integrated General Ledger Accounting System (HIGLAS) will eventually replace the 53 different systems now in use by the private insurance companies that process . . .