Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Expands use of MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Software
$645,000 in Software & Maintenance
McLean, Va., (June 07, 2004) –
MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has expanded its use of the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) to support the new Medicare Managed Care System (MMCS). CMS has purchased MicroStrategy software licenses and maintenance services valued at approximately $645,000.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is a federal agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. CMS is responsible for administering the Medicare Program and the joint Federal-State Medicaid Program.
The new MMCS will help CMS to better meet current and future legislative requirements, accommodate anticipated growth, provide better service to beneficiaries, and facilitate CMS’s monitoring of the Medicare Managed Care program and evaluation of policy decisions. MMCS will process enrollment and payment transactions for more than seven million Medicare beneficiaries who are enrolled in 427 Medicare managed care organizations (MCOs) — computing payments that total over $3 billion per month.
MicroStrategy’s Business Intelligence Platform is being used to provide better insight into information available to CMS (e.g., utilization, quality of care, payment), thereby enabling improved management of the Medicare managed care program.
“Federal and state government agencies are choosing MicroStrategy’s industrial-strength platform to gain better visibility into their operations and to help make important strategic decisions,” said MicroStrategy’s COO Sanju Bansal. “We’re particularly proud of our expanding relationship with the CMS, which provides vital services to citizens nationwide.”
MicroStrategy and the State of Tennessee’s Department of Finance and Administration were honored last year with a DM Review World Class Solution Award for a MicroStrategy application that processes and analyzes millions of Tennessee financial records in an efficient manner. This MicroStrategy application has reduced costs and significantly improved the quality of financial information for decision-making by state officials.
About MicroStrategy Incorporated
Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a worldwide leader in the increasingly critical business intelligence software market. Leading Fortune 2000 companies are integrating MicroStrategy’s industrial-strength software into virtually all facets of their businesses. The MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) distills vast amounts of data into vital, probing insight to help drive cost-efficiency, productivity, customer relations and revenue-generation. MicroStrategy offers exceptional capabilities — excellent scalability, powerful analytics, user-friendly query and reporting features and an outstanding, easy-to-use Web interface. Top companies are using MicroStrategy to cost-effectively harness large, multi-terabyte databases; empower thousands of employees at all operational levels; and extend the benefits of business intelligence enterprise-wide and beyond to customers, partners and suppliers.
MicroStrategy has over 2,600 enterprise-class customers, including General Motors, Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse, Yahoo!, Visa International, Wells Fargo, Telecom Italia, AT&T Wireless Group and Aventis. MicroStrategy also has relationships with over 500 systems integrators and application development and platform partners, including IBM, PeopleSoft, Sun, HP, and Teradata, a division of NCR. MicroStrategy is listed on Nasdaq under the symbol MSTR. For more information or to purchase or demo MicroStrategy’s software, visit MicroStrategy’s Web site at http://www.microstrategy.com.
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Marc Brailov
MicroStrategy Incorporated
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