Challenge Overview
The United States Center for Medicaid Services ("CMS") is running a Challenge (a mesh of TopCoder con) through the NASA Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI) and TopCoder to develop a web-based portal. Medicaid is a healthcare program that is funded by the US federal government and by individual states. It is operated by individual states. The portal developed in this Challenge will allow medical service providers to register themselves in their individual state for compensation from the Medicaid program. While this alone will provide a very welcome new procedure for providers, who must often fill out many paper forms today, the true goal of the portal will be to automatically screen potential providers before they are approved for Medicaid payments. The portal will assign a potential level of risk to each registrant, and will do this by applying a suite of dynamic business rules. Once a level of risk has been assigned, the registrant's application will be sent to the appropriate sub-system for additional screening and processing.
This challenge will need to accomplish the following tasks with Contests:
- Integrate existing business rules and generate new ones. This will require feedback from client subject matter experts.
- Design and develop the web based portal
- Design and develop the data validation and provider screening verification tiers
- Ensure the design is compliant with the MITA 3.0 Architecture (will require an ESB based architecture)
- Ensure the application complies with Section 508 requirements
- Complete a full wireframe and system architecture between weeks 8 and 10
- This will be shared with several states for their feedback
- Some feedback may need to be integrated back into the project
- Finish by November 2012
In order to deliver these reqiurements, your game plan will need to accomodate parallel paths of work (e.g. prototype MITA requirements while gathering business rules in separate contest tracks). MITA 3 is non-trivial and your plan should not assume it can be addressed in a single contest. Your plan should emphesize early proofs-of-concept, and changes based on feedback. You should pay particular attention to how MITA and Section 508 requirements will be tested and verified.
This Copilot Contest differs from other Copilot Contests:
- In this Copilot Contest, we are soliciting game plans that deliver the application.
- We are not seeking copilots and the winner of this contest will not automatically win the copilot position.
- For this reason, the prize on this contest is much higher than the norm.