Date of Death Matches

HHSC matches recipients on active TIERS Eligibility Determination Groups (EDGs) with records from the Social Security Administration (SSA), Texas Bureau of Vital Statistics (BVS), the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS), and HHSC Webservices to identify deceased persons and automatically remove them from active EDGs. If unable to process the death data automatically, TIERS creates tasks for staff to perform more research to determine the validity of the computer match. TIERS will attempt to update the Date of Death (DOD) information for all active and inactive person(s).