MicroStrategy today announced that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is expanding its existing agreement with MicroStrategy. CMS is the federal agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) responsible for the Medicare, Medicaid, and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) programs.

CMS entered into a multi-year enterprise-wide licensing arrangement with MicroStrategy in 2005 in support of current data warehousing and business intelligence projects and to assist with its growing reporting and data analysis requirements, including support for the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA). MicroStrategy will help to provide visibility into data and operations in implementing the MMA, including Medicare management reporting and the new Medicare prescription drug program. MicroStrategy was selected by CMS because of its core reporting and analytic functionality and the product’s scalability to handle volumes of data and large user populations.

”We are delighted that CMS is expanding its deployment of MicroStrategy to support its growing business intelligence initiatives,” said Gary Monroe, MicroStrategy’s Director of Federal Operations. “With more than 40 million beneficiaries, CMS is an essential service to U.S. citizens. We are eager to continue building our relationship with CMS and pleased that they are realizing significant benefits from our technology.”