CMS Debt Management Collections Interface and Report (Rev. 11787;

70.14.3 - CMS Debt Management Collections Interface and Report (Rev. 11787; Issued:01-19-23; Effective: 04-21-23; Implementation:04-21-23) The CMS Debt Management (CMSDM) Collections Interface reports collections back to HIGLAS on debts that were referred to Treasury. The contractor shall view its Roundtrip Status Report every Monday to determine if the CMSDM Treasury Collections Report is available from the Friday HIGLAS cycle. The contractor shall use the appropriate HIGLAS responsibility to generate the CMSDM Treasury Collections Report which is the result of processing the interface and is available three times per month. For each debt listed on the CMSDM Treasury Collections Report, contractors not utilizing HIGLAS shall apply the collection to principal and interest amounts as indicated. For collection of interest only, contractors not utilizing HIGLAS shall post the interest as shown on the CMSDM Treasury Collections Report. An interest adjustment is not required prior to posting the collection. For collection of principal and interest, contractors not utilizing HIGLAS shall manually adjust the amount of interest accrued in its internal system to the amount of interest collected as listed on the CMSDM Treasury Collections Report. This will make the amount of the accrued interest equal to the amount of interest collected which is listed on the CMSDM Treasury Collections Report. Contractors not utilizing HIGLAS shall then post the collection. Interest shall continue to accrue on the remaining principal balance. Contractors not utilizing HIGLAS shall use the current date as the date of collection to post the Treasury collections to their systems. Contractors not utilizing HIGLAS shall complete and return to CMS the CMSDM Treasury Collections Report within 15 business days of receipt. Contractors utilizing HIGLAS shall complete/update their adjustments/refunds within 15 business days of receipt of the CMSDM Treasury Collections Report. CMS shall run a CMSDM Treasury Collections Report on day 16 to determine if there are any unapplied debts. If there are any unapplied debts CMS shall create a report listing those debts and send to the MAC via email. The contractor shall take immediate corrective action and send an Excel spreadsheet back to CMS showing the updates. If a refund is not resolved, the contractor shall have an additional 15 business days to resolve the refund.