Insurance Exchanges

The Colorado Health Benefit Exchange has released an RFP to acquire customer service and information technology services for the Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP) and individual exchanges.

HHS has released a list of FAQs to provide additional guidance on the administration’s intended approach to defining Essential Health Benefits.

This issue brief summarizes a report by the Center for Mississippi Health Policy on the current status of Mississippi's Exchange.

The State Coverage Initiatives and Wakely Consulting Group hosted a meeting on the SHOP Exchange: Policy and Operations on December 15-16, 2011.

This Milliman analysis was conducted for California and identified essential health benefits not generally covered by the benchmark plan options outlined in the December 16, 2011 bulletin.

This Milliman analysis was conducted for Washington and identified essential health benefits not generally covered by the benchmark plan options outlined in the December 16, 2011 bulletin.

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 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.

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.