A September 29 article in Bloomberg BNA's Health
Care Daily Report and other publications, "Watchdog
Faults Slack Oversight of State Obamacare Exchanges,"
discussed a report by the Department of Health and Human
Services' Office of Inspector General (OIG) which found a lack
of oversight of state insurance exchanges by the Centers for
Medicare & Medicaid Services, especially regarding patient
eligibility. Day Pitney's Eric Fader was quoted in the
article.
The state exchanges, or marketplaces, were established under the
Affordable Care Act (ACA). Eric told Bloomberg BNA
that since they have been operational only since 2014,
it's not surprising that there would be some lingering
administrative issues to be resolved. "During the recent
battle over the future of the ACA, and even before then, government
resources that might have been devoted to improving the functioning
and oversight of the exchanges were applied elsewhere," he
observed.
Eric added that the new report, plus other upcoming reviews of the
exchanges as part of the OIG's Work Plan (as discussed
here), seem to be a tacit acknowledgment that the exchanges
will be in existence for the foreseeable future.
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