OIG's Warning That State Exchanges May Be Misusing Grants Spurs CMS

May 5, 2015 at 8:04 PM
CMS plans to issue formal guidance on what qualifies as a health insurance exchange's "operating expenses" -- and therefore not allowed to be funded by federal establishment grants -- following a warning from the HHS Inspector General about potentially illegal exchange spending. State-run health insurance exchanges may have used federal establishment grant funds to cover operating expenses after Jan. 1, violating federal law in the absence of more detailed guidance from CMS, the HHS Inspector General said in a letter...


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