More than a year after the federal government issued an emergency
contract and deadline to fix Healthcare.gov, the back-end of the website
is still not finished.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued an “urgent” contract to Accenture Federal Services to complete the back end of Healthcare.gov in January 2014, warning that a failure to do so by March of that year put “the entire health insurance industry at risk.”
The no-bid contract was valued at $91.1 million for one year, and was issued outside of the normal competitive process because any delay “would cause the financial harm to the Government,” CMS said.
At the time, the website had no “Financial Management platform” to account for enrollments, tax credits, and payments to insurance plans. HHS said without such a system the “entire healthcare reform program is jeopardized.”
http://freebeacon.com/issues/healthcare-gov-still-unfinished-year-after-feds-issued-dire-warning/
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued an “urgent” contract to Accenture Federal Services to complete the back end of Healthcare.gov in January 2014, warning that a failure to do so by March of that year put “the entire health insurance industry at risk.”
The no-bid contract was valued at $91.1 million for one year, and was issued outside of the normal competitive process because any delay “would cause the financial harm to the Government,” CMS said.
At the time, the website had no “Financial Management platform” to account for enrollments, tax credits, and payments to insurance plans. HHS said without such a system the “entire healthcare reform program is jeopardized.”
http://freebeacon.com/issues/healthcare-gov-still-unfinished-year-after-feds-issued-dire-warning/
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