>> My name is Tracy Baker and I am an information technology specialist
for [inaudible] for Medicare and Medicaid services.
I oversee a contract that does maintenance and development of a software system
that manages enrollment and payment for Medicare.
Well, the project that I have is primarily - like I said -
the software system that we manage.
So, what happens is that we receive eligibility information from - say, congress will pass a law
and we need to operationalize what the requirements of that law is.
So, it will come from the - congress to - it would become a law
and then we create operational manuals.
We will work with our business owners to implement those systems.
So, if it says, for example, a person who qualifies for Medicare is 65,
whenever someone turns 65 in the system, we can recognize that they automatically are eligible
for Medicare, for example, so that's a simple example.
But we will operationalize how we pay plans, how people - whether or not,
they're eligible to enroll in different plans.
And my contract basically makes sure that the system processes all of that correctly.