Unisys Corporation - Louisiana Dept. of Health and Hospitals
Uncompensated Care Cost Application (UCC) - Intranet
Antares developed the Uncompensated Care Cost Web application which allows Louisiana's Department
of Health and Hospitals to distribute over $383 Million in grant funds for reimbursement of hospitals,
doctors and other health care providers who took care of uninsured hurricane evacuees after Katrina
and Rita. Major features designed in the application include: Online or batch submission of the
claims; processing of claims using Medicaid edits and pricing; check processing and flexible reporting
functions. The application focused on the processing of claims, creating a Client/Server application
using the current Medicaid Claims Processing System as the model in order to make sure that the claims
were valid (following all of Medicaid’s rules for whether a claim should or should not be paid) and
calculating prices of those claims based on complex pricing algorithms. Development tools - .NET framework,
ASP.NET and SQL Server 2000.
Unisys Corporation - Louisiana Dept. of Health and Hospitals
eHKL - electronic Hurricane Katrina and Rita Locator project - Internet
Antares created the electronic Hurricane Katrina (and Rita) Locator as a Web based
application for the State of
Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals. The web application is accessed on
www.lamedicaid.com and began as a program to help track the location of
all hurricane evacuees of Katrina and Rita especially Medicaid recipients
including long-term care patients and nursing home residents. Development
tools - .NET framework, ASP.NET and SQL Server 2000.
Unisys Corporation - Louisiana Dept. of Health and Hospitals
Office for Addictive Disorders - Access to Recovery - Intranet
The Access to Recovery (ATR) program is part of a Presidential initiative to provide client choice among
substance abuse clinical treatment and recovery support service providers, expand access to a comprehensive
array of clinical treatment and recovery support options and increase substance abuse treatment capacity.
The goal of the program is to provide clinical treatment and recovery support services choices to as many
qualified individuals as possible with the grant monies provided by the Federal government through an
electronic Web-based voucher system.
The project involved an Antares project manager, a team of six
developers, and three quality assurance testers with a five month delivery schedule to achieve their
phase I implementation date. The application was built using the Microsoft .NET framework.
Saks, Inc.
Service Management and Resolution Tool (SMART) - Intranet
Antares designed and developed a custom help desk application for Saks, Incorporated’s company Intranet.
The Web-based SMART (Service Management and Resolution Tool) application's primary goal is facilitating
Help Desk Analysts (HDA's), computer operators, technicians and assignment groups in logging, tracking and
resolving help desk calls and tickets more effectively from start to finish. This was accomplished by
providing increased flexibility and functionality to all users of the system, defining "user levels" and
the integration of existing data from their prior systems. Approximately 200 Saks IT employees submit and
process calls and tickets on the system. This IT group supports all 50,000 Saks employees with help desk issues
which average about 1300 tickets per week.
The project included a project manager, a team of four developers, and two testers with a seven month delivery schedule
to achieve their installation date. This Microsoft .NET project was developed using ASP.NET web pages for the front end
and VB.NET middle tier DLL’s to interface to multiple SQL Server 2000 databases from the front end. Saks went live with
the new application in October 2003, replacing an older mainframe program.
Saks, Inc.
Intranet ID Maintenance Request System - Intranet
Antares developed a custom Intranet application for Saks department stores called the ID Maintenance
Request System (IMRS). The web application reduces the amount of time required to give users appropriate
permissions on all corporate systems (Mainframe, Mail, LAN, Voice) they need to access. It also tightens
control of who can request the addition, modification and deletion of user accounts while enforcing a
consistent method of setting up users automatically giving users access to different systems based on
their job title. Upon the creation of all user accounts needed, the system will notify the user and
provide them with applicable user id’s and passwords.
Saks, Inc.
PCRS Equipment Request Intranet System - Intranet
Antares developed PCRS, a corporate wide solution to facilitate the requesting, tracking, and procurement of
Personal Computer equipment by employees. The PCRS authenticates users against a Microsoft Exchange data
store, providing administrators with efficient, proven centralized security. User data entry is minimized, as
the PCRS looks up employees’ personal data from Exchange profiles and legacy mainframe databases. The PCRS
incorporates a standard e-commerce shopping cart design to provide end users with a simple, effective and
familiar interface. Development tools included MS Active Server Pages, JavaScript, and SQL Server 2000.
Project involved a team of four developers and one tester with a six month delivery schedule to achieve
their implementation date.
Unisys Corporation - Louisiana Dept. of Health and Hospitals
eCDI - electronic Clinical Drug Inquiry - Intranet
Antares developed an expansion of the Clinical Drug Inquiry (CDI) Web-based application by providing
additional clinical encounter information on a selected recipient in the Louisiana Medicaid program.
The expansion was incorporated into a cohesive application called the Louisiana Medicaid Clinical
Assessment Tool Set (CATS). The purpose of the CATS application is to afford Louisiana Medicaid
providers with an interactive mechanism to promote better patient treatment and coordination of care. The
CATS application includes: drug history, physician/EPSDT visits, laboratory and X-Ray history,
emergency room history, inpatient hospital admissions, outpatient procedures, and specialist/ancillary
services. Development tools - .NET framework, ASP.NET and SQL Server 2000.
Unisys Corporation - Louisiana Dept. of Health and Hospitals
Recipient Reimbursement Web Application - Intranet
Antares developed the Recipient Reimbursement Intranet System which allows Louisiana's Department
of Health and Hospitals to process and pay out–of-pocket expenses to recipients incurred during their
retroactive Medicaid eligibility period. Major features designed in the application include: Case
tracking functionality; especially those that were worked and completed by a Program Specialist;
searchable records by CCN, SSN, or Recipient ID number and name; the capability to feed needed information
to check generation system and obtain check detailed information such as check number; edit checking of
claims to validate proper payment of claims consistent with Medicaid claims processing policy including
duplicate payments, ineligible providers, and procedures not covered; and automation of price calculation
where payments will be calculated as close to the Medicaid pay rate as possible. Development tools - .NET framework,
ASP.NET and SQL Server 2000.
Unisys Corporation - Louisiana Dept. of Health and Hospitals
Third Party Liability Recover Application (TPL) - Intranet
The TPL Recovery application allows Louisiana's Department of Health and Hospitals to manage information for
third-party recovery for recipient, estate, trauma, and health through a user-friendly web based system.
Major features designed in the application include: Transaction tracking for payment, financial, provider,
referral agency, state office, and attorney interaction per case; On-line form entry and submission to
initiate requests; Searchable Case tracking functions to monitor and track cases from receipt to completion;
an online, up to date, trauma file queue that will replace the need for monthly distribution of trauma report
to parish offices; a consistent workflow process for utilization between all types of recovery; an Internet
site which allows for the online entry or downloadable version of TPL Recovery forms for attorneys and insurance
companies. Development tools - .NET framework, ASP.NET and SQL Server 2000.
La. Dept. of Education, Division of Nutrition Assistance
Family Daycare Home Electronic Claims Project - Internet
The Department of Education’s Division of Nutrition Assistance (DNA) is responsible for handling the distribution
of Federal funding for school and daycare nutrition programs. The original process was paper intensive for state
employees to enroll, document and process the checks from approved claim information.
Antares created a web-based claims application that is used by the day care provider sponsors to enter claims and
by the state users to process and approve developed during the design phase. The application utilizes their existing
SQL server database and pre-fills applicable fields.
- Allow sponsors to submit claims via a secured web site.
- Allow state users to enter, review and approve claims.
- Allow users to print hard copies of the forms submitted.
- Allow state users to print reports on the status, aggregates, etc on the claims.
- Modify existing application to maintain rate tables and print reports.
- Maintain a user interface as consistent as possible with the current program.
- The system must allow functionality with the Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Communicator browsers.
Administrative functions such as the maintenance of rate tables and report printing was added to the existing Visual
Basic application and was limited to the local system. The current SQL Server database in use by the Family Daycare
Program was used in this project. All needed data was added to the existing database. The system resides and is integrated
with the Dept. of Education’s existing web server.
