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October 02, 2012 at 09:45 AM
The Connecticut Health Insurance Exchange is moving ahead with efforts to set up a Web-based health insurance supermarket.
The exchange, the entity in charge of the supermarket, has picked Deloitte Consulting to be the exchange “system integrator.” Deloitte is supposed to “develop and implement the Exchange’s extensive operating technology and Internet website,” officials said.
The state will use some of the cash from a $102 million federal exchange grant to pay for the contract, officials said.
Deloitte also has won a health insurance exchange system integration contract in Washington state, officials said.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (2010) calls for state and federal agencies to make health insurance exchange services available to all U.S. residents by 2014.
Exchange watchers have said that developing exchange systems will be challenge, because the systems will have to help with determining whether consumers are eligible for government programs such as Medicaid and new PPACA health insurance purchase tax credits as well as helping users by commercial health coverage.
In addition to picking the exchange system integrator, the exchange officials have released a draft of the program’s Navigator Grant Program Policy.
