CMS: 30-40% of federal marketplace remains to be built

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More than 30% of the “back end” infrastructure still remains to be built in the federally-run marketplace, Henry Chao, the top IT official at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, testified on Capitol Hill Tuesday.

The consumer-facing portions of the site were fully functional on launch but what remains is back office systems, Chao said. 

Brian M. Kalish
Online Managing Editor, Health Care Group

Kalish is a fomer managing editor of SourceMedia’s Employee Benefits Group.


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