CMS Awards $29.1 Million In Exchange Grants To Three States

CMS awarded approximately $29.9 million in “level one” exchange establishment grants to Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Virginia, coming as the establishment grants authorized under the Affordable Care Act will be phased out as of Jan. 1, 2015, after which state-based exchanges must be sustainable on their own. States may continue to use money allocated in 2014 for certain projects throughout next year, CMS has said. Rhode Island received $5,874, 736 to continue working its exchange by “improving and enhancing” its...