A/B Mac Juristictions

To achieve its ultimate goal of ten A/B MAC contracts, over the next several years, CMS will consolidate the following ten A/B MAC workloads, comprising five pairings, to form five consolidated A/B MAC contracts.

o A/B MAC Jurisdictions 2 and 3 (Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, and Arizona)

o A/B MAC Jurisdictions 4 and 7 (Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, and New Mexico)

o A/B MAC Jurisdictions 5 and 6 (Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, and Missouri)

o A/B MAC Jurisdictions 8 and 15 (Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan, and Indiana)

o A/B MAC Jurisdictions 13 and 14 (New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont, Maine, and New Hampshire)

See the second download below for a map of the consolidated A/B MAC jurisdictions.

Jurisdictions 2 and 7 were originally solicited in 2006, but will not be implemented based on their original solicitations. Rather, CMS will integrate these workloads into new solicitations that will, respectively, also incorporate the Medicare workloads performed by the existing A/B MAC Jurisdictions 3 and 4. The first solicitation will consolidate A/B MAC Jurisdictions 2 and 3, and the second solicitation will consolidate A/B MAC Jurisdictions 4 and 7.

CMS intends to re-compete five A/B MAC contracts/jurisdictions based on their present area boundaries, as the current A/B MAC contracts run their course. These five contracts/jurisdictions will not be increased or reduced in size by CMS's consolidation strategy. The five A/B MAC contracts/jurisdictions that will not be further consolidated are:

o A/B MAC Jurisdiction 1 (California, Hawaii, Nevada, Pacific Islands)

o A/B MAC Jurisdiction 9 (Florida, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands)

o A/B MAC Jurisdiction 10 (Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee)

o A/B MAC Jurisdiction 11 (North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia)

o A/B MAC Jurisdiction 12 (Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Washington DC)