The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) says it wants to let states perform the health insurance exchange-related functions they really want to perform and have HHS handle the other functions.
Officials from the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (CCIIO), an HHS arm that is overseeing HHS implementation of many components of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA), talked about the proposed federal-state partnership program today at a meeting for regulators from states using HHS grants to explore the idea of setting up health insurance distribution exchanges.
If PPACA takes effect as written and works as drafters expect, the exchanges are supposed to help individuals and small groups use a new system of tax-credit subsidies to buy private health coverage buy 2014. HHS has said that a state can choose to be home to one exchange or several exchanges, or let HHS take care of providing exchange services for its residents.
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Allison Bell
Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.
