Administrative Program Accounting

The HIGLAS Administrative Program Accounting (APA) transition effort was the solution to replace the Agency’s legacy Financial Accounting Control System (FACS).  This solution was addressed in a phased approach that culminated with the sunset of all FACS functionality on December 10, 2012.

Phase 1 was implemented in October 2006 when HIGLAS became the system of record for recording all approved Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) grant awards.  HIGLAS batched all approved awards and transmitted them to the Payment Management System (PMS) for disbursement.  The combination of these two activities accounted for approximately 32.7% of CMS outlays; the largest dollars transitioned to HIGLAS as of 2006.

Phase 2 was implemented in October 2008 when all functionality to account for all APA Line of Business (LOB) activity was transitioned through a direct daily interface from FACS.  This phase allowed HIGLAS to account for all CMS dollars, including the Managed Care (Part C) and Prescription Drug (Part D) programs.  This phase enabled HIGLAS to transition to the system of record for producing the Agency’s Financial Statements as of the 3rd Quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2009.

The final transition effort for the APA LOB was implemented on Monday, December 10, 2012, when HIGLAS was turned over to CMS Accounting staff to conduct their day to day accounting and reporting activities.