Administrative Program Accounting

The HIGLAS Administrative Program Accounting (APA) solution is based on the Department-wide United Financial Management System (UFMS) effort.

In October 2006, HIGLAS began processing all grants. Medicare grants will continue to be entered into the Medicare Budget Expenditure System (MBES), and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) grants will be entered into the CHIP Budget and Expenditure System (CBES). HIGLAS will process approved grants and transmit them to the Payment Management System (PMS) for disbursement.

The State Medicaid and CHIP Grants processing was implemented in HIGLAS. Medicaid and CHIP grants activity accounts for approximately 32.7% of CMS outlays; the largest dollars transitioned to HIGLAS.

In April 2009, HIGLAS began successfully generating parallel CMS Financial Statements for the 1st quarter of FY 2009 in HIGLAS. CMS is currently conducting Production Simulation testing of Financial Statement generation for FY 2009 and plans to complete the testing with the FY 2009 4th Quarter Financial Statements. The first HIGLAS CMS Financial Statements for submission will be the FY 2010 1st Quarter statements produced in January 2010.

In FY09, HIGLAS has completed several of the Unit Test Demonstrations (UTD) of the key Oracle Modules required to support the scheduled January 2010 go-live date of producing the agencies financial Statements from HIGLAS.