Insurance Exchanges

The Colorado Health Benefit Exchange released a Request for Proposal to procure project management services.

Rhode Island's Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS) released an RFP last Friday for a project management office for enhancements to its Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS) and for development and implementation of EOHHS/Medicaid components of the new Health Insurance Exchange/Integrated Eligibility System.

This fact sheet summarizes key provisions in the Affordable Care Act that may affect small businesses and their employees, and explains the law’s small business tax credits and the Small Business Health Options Program exchanges to be established in each state by 2014.

The Departments of Health, Commerce, and Human Services received more than 70 pages of comments from a wide range of stakeholders regarding establishing an essential benefit set as part of health care reform.

This guidance letter from the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services and Agriculture clarifies guidance issued in 2010 on cost-allocation procedures for information technology that can be used to develop health insurance exchanges that are called for under the health care reform law.