The Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded Document Storage Systems a potential five-year, $212.6 million contract to provide a software platform that could support VA’s coding, billing and auditing, reporting and project management functions and facilitate real-time integration with the Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture, or VistA.
According to an award notice published Friday on the Federal Procurement Data System-Next Generation, VA launched a full and open competition and received two bids for the Health Information Coding, Billing and Auditing VistA Integration, Revenue and Reporting, or HICBA VIRR, software delivery program.
The department obligated $13.1 million at the time of award.
Work will run through May 30, 2030.
HICBA VIRR Software Contract Requirement
According to a solicitation published in April, the Veterans Health Administration expects the contractor to provide software that could support the coding process, facilitate billing claim edits and reporting, ensure clinical documentation integrity and streamline integration with tools such as VistA and the current HICBA Encoder software platform.
The software offering should help personnel accurately select codes by providing functionality and tools that could aid users in applying VHA coding guidelines. It should also help expedite the coding processes and ensure that all patient care services and settings are coded in a timely manner.
The software platform should include a VHA enterprisewide license for an unlimited number of users.
VHA requires the offering to comply with International Classification of Diseases translations and provide a centralized reporting module for monitoring training, productivity and technical support.
