Return to top Home Health and Hospice Areas (HH+H) Learn more about A/B MACs at Who are the MACs.
Collectively in FY2021, the MACs processed more than 1.1 billion Medicare FFS claims, comprised of approximately 221 million Part A claims and 956 million Part B claims, and paid out approximately $424 billion in Medicare FFS benefits.Ī/B MACs process Medicare Part A and Medicare Part B claims for a defined geographic area or “jurisdiction,” servicing institutional providers, physicians, practitioners, and suppliers.
In Fiscal Year 2021 (FY2021), the MACs served more than 1.1 million health care providers who are enrolled in the Medicare FFS program. Learn more about the strategy in the Archives.Ĭurrently there are 12 A/B MACs and 4 DME MACs in the program that process Medicare FFS claims for nearly 56% of the total Medicare beneficiary population, or 36 million Medicare FFS beneficiaries. Various elements of the Agency’s original strategy for implementing Section 911 of the MMA evolved over the years.
CMS procures all MAC contracts according to the Federal Acquisition Regulation. Section 911 of the Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement, and Modernization Act (MMA) of 2003 directed CMS to replace the Part A Fiscal Intermediaries (FIs) and Part B carriers with MACs.