Drug Data Processing System (DDPS)

The Medicare Modernization Act (MMA) of 2003 established a prescription drug benefit to subsidize the cost of prescription drugs for Medicare beneficiaries, which went into effect January 1, 2006. In 2005, CMS selected General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) Healthcare Information Technology (HIT) to design, develop, validate and implement DDPS. GDIT HIT continues to successfully support DDPS, and has expanded its role to encompass significant support for data analysis and reporting. DDPS captures, validates, stores and reports prescription drug event (PDE) data in support of the Medicare Part D program. This system captures actual cost and utilization data related to PDEs, as well as associated dimensional data. The data is stored to the CMS Integrated Data Repository (IDR), where the data is accessed via the Business Intelligence (BI) components of DDPS to address the data analysis requirements of CMS.