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Background
Integrated Health Services, Inc. (IHS) is one of the nation's largest post-acute care organizations, focusing on nursing facilities, contract rehabilitation and home respiratory systems. IHS is required to prepare and submit a cost report for each skilled nursing facility on an annual basis in order to get Medicare reimbursement from the federal government.

Problem
To be Year 2000 compliant, IHS decided to switch from their old financial system, Ross Financials, to PeopleSoft® Financials. They had been using a KPMG application called CompuMax to facilitate the generation of the cost reports. IHS needed to implement an interface or subsystem that would pull the information from PeopleSoft and load it into CompuMax. IHS contracted Buchanan & Edwards for this effort.

B&E's Right Solution
Buchanan & Edwards assisted IHS with the cost reporting subsystem portion of the PeopleSoft implementation.

B&E analyzed the Medicare cost reporting subsystem in the Ross Financials system. This cost reporting subsystem used the expenses incurred by IHS to determine the Medicare reimbursement due from the federal government. This included a review of the existing processing in Ross, documenting the functional requirements and creating a design document explaining how the functionality would be implemented in an interface between PeopleSoft Financials and the third-party cost reporting software, CompuMax.

Result
B&E successfully developed and implemented the subsystem on time and on budget, enabling IHS to retire the Ross cost reporting functionality and successfully migrate to PeopleSoft Financials 7.5.