U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Data Feed

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, CMS, is a federal agency within the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that administers the Medicare program and works in partnership with state governments to administer Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and health insurance portability standards. In addition to these programs, CMS has other responsibilities, including the administrative simplification standards from the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), quality standards in long-term care facilities through its survey and certification process, clinical laboratory quality standards under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments, and oversight of HealthCare.gov.

The CMS and Archer integration allows you to centralize the Internet Only Manuals RSS feed from CMS site and store the data in a searchable, standardized format in Archer. It captures and stores an abstract of the issue and a link to an external site, that helps to analyze regulatory news and alerts as they pertain to your organization's critical business processes.

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Release notes

Release Date

Version

Comment

July 2024

2024.03

Recertified on Archer platform release 2024.03. Renamed installation package to reflect release version but no changes were made to the data feed.

July 2023

6.13

Updated the RSS feed URL for CMS Internet only Manuals in data feed.

Existing customers can replace the RSS link in the data feed transport page to https://www.cms.gov/rss/31836 and run it.

Overview of U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Data Feed Integration

Benefits

With the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Data Feed Integration, you will be able to:

  • Consolidate Regulatory Intelligence Data.

  • Get updates on recent events, current Manuals from CMS.

  • Automatically pulls the data into Archer on a scheduled basis.

Prerequisites (ODA and system requirements)

Components

Prerequisites

Archer Solution Area (s)

Archer Regulatory & Corporate Compliance Management

Archer Use Case(s)

This offering requires one of the following prerequisites:

  • Archer Corporate Obligations Management

  • Archer IT Regulatory Management

Archer Applications

Regulatory Intelligence Items

 

Uses Custom Object

No

Requires On- Demand License

No

Archer Supported Platform Release

This offering has been developed for and validated on Archer Platform Release 2024.03 and later.

Additional resources

The following additional resources are available for this offering:

U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Data Feed Integration components

Architecture diagram

 

Business process

The business process follows the following flow:

  1. CMS posts the most recent updates on regulations and guidance on their website in several formats, including XML.

  2. The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Data Feed integration pulls the below mentioned data from the source: CMS website and imports the data into Target: Archer’s Regulatory Intelligence Items application within the following fields:

    • title -> Title

    • Source -> Source

    • link -> Link

    • pubDate -> Date Published

    • guid -> GUID

    • description -> Abstract

Installing U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Data Feed Integration

Before you begin 

This section provides instructions for configuring the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Data Feed Integration with the Archer Platform. This document is not intended to suggest optimum installations or configurations.

It is assumed that the reader has both working knowledge of all products involved, and the ability to perform the tasks outlined in this section. Administrators should have access to the product documentation for all products to install the required components.

The prerequisite use cases must be working prior to the integration. Perform the necessary tests to confirm that this is true before proceeding.

Important: The integration described in this guide is being provided as a reference implementation for evaluation and testing purposes. It may or may not meet the needs and use cases for your organization. If additional customizations or enhancements are needed, it is recommended that customers contact Archer Help for assistance.

Prerequisites (system requirements)

The Regulatory Intelligence Items application is required for installation and operation of the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Data Feed Integration. It serves as a target application for the data feed.

Installation overview

Complete the following tasks to install the integration.

Task 1: Prepare for the installation

  1. Ensure that your Archer system meets the following requirements:

    • Archer Platform version 2024.03 or later

  2. Download the integration package from the Archer Exchange.

Task 2: Set up data feeds

You must import and schedule each data feed that you want to use. See Setting Up Data Feeds for complete information.

Task 3: Test the installation

Test the integration according to your company standards and procedures, to ensure that the use case works with your existing processes.

Setting up data feed

The following data feed issued as a part of the integration process: “RegInt CMS_IOMs_RSS_Feed” is a RSS transporter feed which fetches the data from https://www.cms.gov/rss/31836 site and creates/updates the records in Regulatory Intelligence Items Application.

For data feed configuration, perform the following steps:

  1. Log into the Archer platform and click the Administration workspace tab.

  1. Click Data Feeds in the Navigation Menu under Integration.

  1. Click the Import link and browse to the RegInt CMS_IOMs_RSS_Feed.dfx5.

  1. Verify settings on the General Information tab. be sure to change the status to Active before using the feed.

  1. Verify the settings on the Transport tab.

    Note: Default Retrieval Count is set to 1 Day. Update this as per your requirement.

  1. Verify the settings on the Source Definition tab. This will be pre-configured to identify the necessary fields to generate a score snapshot.

    Note: The Source Field on the Source Definition tab will be automatically populated when you import the data feed. Repopulating the fields by clicking on “Load Fields” will lead to removal of one pre-populated field from the list (i.e. Source). Hence, add a new field by clicking on “Add New” and rename as “Source” and select field type “Static Text” with appropriate value in the Text editor. Also, be sure that the data mappings are configured correctly after the load fields.

  1. Verify the settings and mappings on the Data Map tab.

  1. The Key Definition fields should be pre-populated based on the information from the DFX import file. Ensure that the Key Definition fields are set.

  1. The final configuration step is to schedule the data feed. Click the Run Configuration tab and configure the frequency and start time of the Data Feed.

  1. Click Save to apply your configuration to the data feed. Click on Run Now to run the data feed immediately. Click the data feed status (Completed/Faulted/Warning) link for additional information on the status of the feed or to troubleshoot any feed errors.

Certification environment

Date tested: July 2024

Product Name

Version Information

Operating System

Archer

2024.03

Windows