About Us

National Government Services, Inc. has a long history of supporting federal health agencies such as the CMS. Throughout the country, NGS has efficient operation, financial and human resources in place that position the organization as a national leader in Medicare for over 50 years.

Facts at a Glance

• Serves as a Medicare contractor with CMS since 1966.
• International Organization for Standardization—ISO 9001:2015 certified.
• Serves nearly 27 million people with Medicare in 20 states and five U.S. Territories. NGS serves 240 members of Congress.
• Administers the Medicare Part A (hospital insurance) contract for the states of Connecticut, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wisconsin serving over 14,000 Part A providers of service.
• Administers the Medicare HH+H contract for the states of Alaska, Arizona, California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Idaho, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin and the U.S. Territories of American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands serving over 5,000 HH+H providers of service.
• Administers the Medicare free-standing FQHC contract serving nearly 4,500 FQHCs in 44 states, District of Columbia and five U.S. territories.
• Administers the Medicare Part B (medical insurance) contract for the states of Connecticut, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wisconsin serving over 416,000 Part B physicians and providers of service.
• Processed over 228 million Medicare claims and administered benefits of more than $84 billion from the Medicare Trust Fund in 2019.
• Responded to over 2.4 million phone and IVR calls, 59,000 written inquiries and 250 Congressional inquiries from the Medicare community in 2019.
• Developed and maintains web-based self-service tools that allows Medicare providers to have millions of interactions to answer their educational and billing needs in 2019.
• EIT divisions at NGS have achieved advanced appraisals with NGD, achieving a Maturity Level 5 appraisal and NGSFS achieving a Maturity Level 4.
• Developed and maintains the NGD system 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. NGD interacts with all Medicare claims processing systems and other multiple government data sources which is capable of hosting 20,000 agents, thousands of web users and the ability to process over 100 million inquiries per year.

Note: The information above is an attempt to capture workload numbers from calendar and fiscal year 2019. These workload numbers are to be used as a guide only and are expected to change with 2020 data.

Current as of June 2020

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