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Project Status and important Information Aon eSolutions continues to work on our solution to support all currently published CMS reporting requirements. We are attending Town Hall Teleconferences and have obtained the latest version of the reporting requirements and the alert document provided on the CMS website, including the changes that were made this week by the CMS. As July is here, many of you are most likely registered with CMS and will be ready to begin testing in the immediate future. Please note, if you have not already done so, please ensure that you contact CMS and request the HEW (HIPAA Eligibility Wrapper) software and install the application at your site. The Aon eSolutions functionality does not currently include the 270 /271 translation software. When the Eligibility query is run the eSolutions fun file will need to be processed through the HEW software and the resulting file format is what will be provided resulting COBa for processing. The resulting response file from COBC will need to be processed through the HEW software and the resulting unencrypted flat file is what will be imported into the iVOS system to update claimant eligibility information. Aon will be providing CMS functionality in two or more releases. 1VOS users (using 4.1.6.x, 4.1.7.x, 4.2.2.x, 4.2.3.x) will be able to download the functionality and install in a test region or on their laptop to begin working with the functionality when it becomes available. Estimated availability dates are: ' 4.2.3.4 — August 10, 2009. 4.2.2.1 — August 21, 2009. 4.1.7.2 — August 10, 2009. • 4.1.6.3 — August 17, 2009. This initial release will include the following: 1. New Medicare tab and associated database changes. 2. Screens to enter RRE and RRE ID information and to define how claimants will be linked to the RREs. 3. Scheduled Jobs functionality to: • Assign RRE IDs to claimants. • Run the Eligibility query and generate a flat file of names, SSN, DOB, Gender to be searched. ■ Process the CMS /COBC Eligibility Query Response File and update claim/claimant information with eligibility status 4. Eligibility Data Gap report that will list claimants who do not include all five data elements to be included in the search. Aon functionality will not include a claimant on the query until all five data elements are provided. 5. Business Rules for: • Notifying users when a claimant has been identified as a Medicare beneficiary in the eligibility response from CMS. If you attended one of the recent webinars you may recall clients asking about information related to the pricing of the Aon eSolutions iVOS CMS functionality. The response was that we didn't have the pricing information available at that time. In addition, the 614 webinar recap email noted the following question "What is the cost for this solution ?" and at that time, the answer was "Fees have not been determined at this time ". Product Management has announced that the cost for the optional CMS module is $25,000 (+ $5,625 annual maintenance), ho w if if a Statement of Work (SOW) is signed by 9/30/2009 the fee is discounted to $15,000 (annual maintenance fee mains at $5,625). For more information and/or to purchase the CMS module please contact your Client Development Manager. As an attachment to this communication, we're providing a preview of the Detailed User Guide and Configuration Instructions documentation which will be provided with the functionality release. The Support Team will be able to assist as needed to answer any iVOS related questions. Webinars to provide an overview of how to use the iVOS functionality will be scheduled in the near future. More details will be provided in a future eNews communication. 2of12 25Q -6