The Ohio Department of Medicaid (ODM) announced that its Medicaid Information Technology Sytem (MITS) will experience "dark days" beginning June 23 through July 1. All claims submitted by a billing/trading partner during this time period will be held and processed after July 1 and will be processed in the new OMES system. Facilities should be aware that if claims are billed during that time period, reimbursement will be delayed. Facilities that also use a trading partner to complete their billing will need to make sure the trading partner is ready for this transition.
At this point, ODM is uncertain whether a facility can manually enter a claim in the MITS system during the time window. ODM continues to work with its partners, but wanted to notify providers well in advance of the dates, so that they can plan for the delays. More information will be forthcoming from ODM as we near the transition window.