Insurance Exchanges

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

New York State's comments on the December 16, 2011 Essential Health Benefits bulletin.

The Minnesota Health Insurance Exchange Advisory Task Force approved its first set of formal recommendations on January 18, 2012.

This New York State status report was presented to the state's Exchange Planning Group. The report highlights a list of policy reports due in April 2012, and shows that the state recently asked HHS for $48.5 million in additional Level One grants.

Arizona's RFP for a vendor to build an online eligibility and enrollment system for a state exchange (the state has not passed exchange establishing legislation).

This Alavere study examines formulary coverage among plans that states may select as Essential Health Benefit benchmarks.

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.

Rhode Island is soliciting responses from qualified entities to explore the implementation of the Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP).

The Oregon Health Insurance Exchange submitted its business plan to the legislature.

This report by provides detailed background on Vermont’s existing publicly funded health care programs, the impact of the ACA, and recommendations for designing various components of the Exchange.