Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) has secured the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) as a customer.

CMS will migrate "select" on-premises workloads to OCI, enabling the organization to modernize its mission-critical systems.

On the OCI platform, CMS will use Oracle's FedRAMP High-authorized infrastructure so as to meet the required federal security and compliance requirements.

The CMS is the US federal agency that provides healthcare to US citizens. It currently provides coverage for more than 160 million people.

“CMS’ programs are vital to the wellbeing of many Americans, a responsibility that demands uncompromising security, reliability, and fiscal stewardship,” said Kim Lynch, executive vice president, Government, Intelligence and Defense, Oracle. “At Oracle, we win when America wins, and we're committed to helping federal agencies do more for the Americans they serve.”

By migrating to Oracle, CMS hopes to improve its scalability, cost efficiency, and to be able to adopt integrated analytics and AI capabilities.

Details about an expected timeline for the cloud migration, or the organization's previous on-prem data center, have not been provided.

In 2016, the CMS was known to operate at least 13 data centers.

The CMS was previously known as the Health Care Financing Administration until 2001. Currently, the organization employs some 6,000 people, the majority of whom are located in Woodlawn, Maryland.

In December 2025, a 150MW data center was proposed for development in Woodlawn by Security Land and Development LP.

Maryland is one of the US' smaller states, and has a modest data center market at present. Most facilities currently sit around Frederick or Baltimore. Despite this, its proximity to Virginia is bringing more attention to the state. In addition, the state governor signed a bill easing restrictions on data center backup generators last May.