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IACS Transition Drama Wraps Up
Published on Thu Jul 23, 2015 
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The troubled IACS-to-EIDM system transition is complete, CMS says. “CMS transitioned Individuals Authorized Access to CMS Computer Services (IACS) accounts to the Enterprise Identity Management System (EIDM),” it said in a July 13 notice on its website.
Hangups in the transition hampered some hospices’ ability to self-calculate and report their caps earlier this year (see Eli’s Hospice Insider, Vol. 8, No. 3).
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