Active Informational Alerts March 07, 2012
Highmark Medicare Services Changes Name to Novitas Solutions, Inc.
UPDATE: 03/07/2012 @ 10:30 AM
As announced March 1, 2012, Highmark Medicare Services is changing its name to Novitas Solutions. Effective March 10, 2012, Novitas Solutions will begin migrating the current Highmark Medicare Services website to our new Novitas Solutions website. We are targeting completing our name-change to all active webpage content by March 30, 2012. The new Novitas Solutions website URL will be https://www.novitas-solutions.com. As this migration takes place, you will notice the following:
- Visiting https://www.novitas-solutions.com today will already take you to the current Highmark Medicare Services website.
- The Highmark Medicare Services website will be renamed to https://www.novitas-solutions.com and our main header logos will be changed to reflect our new company name.
- Throughout the website, we will be changing the verbiage within active webpages from "Highmark Medicare Services" to "Novitas Solutions."
- There will be some historical documents on our website that will not be changed to our new company name. These documents (e.g., past Medicare Reports issues) were issued under our previous company name, and it is appropriate to keep these documents as they were originally issued.
We understand that many of our customers have currently bookmarked favorite pages throughout our website. During and after this migration is completed, those bookmarks should continue to work. We are employing an automatic redirect process that will redirect page requests to the correct new webpage. We do recommend that you update your bookmark for the new webpage once you are redirected.
We will continue to post updates to our website as we move through this migration. We appreciate your patience as we move to https://www.novitas-solutions.com.
ISSUED: (03/01/2012 @ 4:45 PM)
Effective January 1, 2012, Diversified Service Options, Inc. (DSO), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida Inc., acquired Highmark Medicare Services (HMS) from its parent company, Highmark Inc. As a result, HMS changed its name to Novitas Solutions, Inc. (Novitas). Novitas, pronounced Nō-va-tahs with an emphasis on the first syllable, is the Latin word for "newness", and we will be designing a new logo and brand management system to support the new company identity during the next few months.
Novitas will continue to be the Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) for J12 and the Section 1011 Administrative Contractor. Our mission "to provide quality services and responsive solutions in the administration of our contracts according to our core values and in support of the goals of our stakeholders" remains unchanged. We will continue to provide the same great service with our knowledgeable and experienced staff to which you are accustomed.
As we move through the migration to our new name, Novitas will provide additional announcements and frequently asked questions (FAQs) on our Website that will cover any potential impacts to our customers. We will also announce changes to external documents and systems in advance. For example, our Website domain name will be changed in the near future to http://www.novitas-solutions.com, and we'll announce it in advance through a Web alert and listserv notice.
