Grassley, Hatch Press CMS On Consumer Privacy Following Reports Of Data-Sharing

Senate Finance Committee Chair Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Finance member Charles Grassley (R-IA) are pressing CMS on its privacy standards after the Associated Press reported that Healthcare.gov is apparently sharing data with dozens of third-party vendors. According to the AP, the site is sending date to companies that specialize in advertising and analyzing Internet data and while the scope of the data being sent was not clear, it could contain age, income, zip code as well as smoking or...