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Mutual of Omaha served the Medicare program as a fiscal intermediary for several decades.  The Mutual of Omaha fiscal intermediary workload was, and still is, identified in Medicare data systems as “workload number 52280.”  Wisconsin Physician Services (WPS) took over the legacy Mutual workload in 2006.  Providers serviced by WPS under that fiscal intermediary contract have remained in that workload pursuant to 42 CFR 421.104.  We refer to that body of providers as “the legacy WPS workload.”  This set of providers has been serviced under a distinct contract and maintained in a WPS workload separate from the Jurisdiction 5 A/B MAC workload.  CMS is currently planning to move a limited set of the providers in the 52280 legacy WPS workload to their destination assignments. 

The first set to move will be those providers destined to be assigned to the Jurisdiction 1 MAC pursuant to the geographic assignment rule and its exceptions.  A broad discussion of geographic assignment rule and its exceptions can be found in Medicare Learning Matters article number “MM5979.”