CMS wants sub-second Medicare claims adjudication. The statutory payment floor is still 13 days. Those two facts don’t cancel each other. They coexist, and that’s the whole story.
The ClaimsCore RFI contemplates replacing FISS, MCS, the DME system, and the Common Working File with a commercial cloud platform. That’s a draft acquisition concept, not an award. Nobody has replaced Medicare’s shared systems.
A live bridge, MAP, already runs in limited parallel with the legacy system. Standing it up required preserving continuity with 5 downstream repositories. Even a thin slice of new volume needed every old room to stay reachable.
Real-time adjudication and real-time payment are six different claims depending on which transaction type you mean. Only one of them touches your working capital. The 14-day floor is in statute. Congress owns it, not CMS.
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