Health Exchange Alert Weekly Report - 01/16/2019

Dems Seeks Details On How CMS Spends Marketplace User Fees

By Amy Lotven / January 14, 2019 at 5:03 PM
House and Senate Democratic leaders continued their expected oversight efforts on Thursday (Jan. 10) by demanding CMS explain why it continues to charge states using the federal technology a user fee of up to 3.5 percent of premiums even as the agency has slashed money for exchange advertising and outreach services that those funds are meant to support. The letter was signed by Energy & Commerce Chair Frank Pallone (D-NJ), Ways & Means Chair Richard Neal (D-MA), Education & Labor...


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