Ohio's MMIS Replacement Project: MITS

MITS is first and foremost a strategic project to enable Ohio Medicaid to respond to current and emerging business demands in the health care marketplace. MITS will replace the 20-year-old legacy Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS). MITS will improve efficiency by automating many processes that are currently performed manually. It will also allow providers and consumers to conveniently access our system via a dedicated Web portal.

The key business driver for MITS is the need for an information technology system capable of rapidly implementing state and federal Medicaid program changes and meeting today’s business needs for Ohio Medicaid. Ohio’s MMIS is a mainframe-based system which processed about 64 million health care claims in calendar year 2007 for more than 2 million Ohioans covered by Ohio Medicaid. Unfortunately, MMIS does not provide the functionality needed to support the increasing demands placed on Ohio’s Medicaid program. It must be replaced with web-based technology that can easily adapt to program fluctuations and needs.

The development and implementation of MITS provides the opportunity to improve operations and to streamline functionality for managed care plans, fee-for-service providers, and Medicaid consumers. MITS will provide a secure Web site that will offer more support through an array of automated business solutions to increase self-service capabilities.

Contact us: MITS@jfs.ohio.gov