Privacy Act of 1974; Report of a New System of Records

Résumé

In accordance with the requirements of the Privacy Act of 1974, we are proposing to establish a new SOR titled, "Medicare Prescription Drug Plan Finder (MPDPF) System, HHS/CMS/CBC, System No. 09-70-0564." Under the provisions of Section 101 of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA) (Pub. L. 108-173), CMS has provided the participants of eligibility transactions a query and response solution in a single data center using a three-tier architecture. Enterprise Business Services (EBS), the user interface, will have the responsibility of receiving identifying information on Medicare beneficiaries for processing eligibility requests and enrollment assistance with the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Program. These inbound messages will be sent to EBS for processing of the eligibility request and for securing the information from the CMS Community Based Organization/ Customer Service Representative (CBO/CSR) Data Store, and for sending an available plan option response back via the internet. EBS will capture the identifying information and enrollment selection, and transmit it to the selected Medicare Prescription Drug Plan (PDP) or Medicare Adv