by admin | Jan 21, 2015 | CMS, Health Care Reform, HHS, Obamacare
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) yesterday released results of its review of the 60 “Federal Marketplace contracts” for HealthCare.gov awarded by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services...
by admin | Jan 17, 2015 | Affordable Care Act, CMS, HHS, Obamacare
Though not subject to the scathing public indictment that Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sibelius faced for the Obamacare rollout, Marilyn Tavenner, head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), is resigning a year after her boss...
by admin | Jan 10, 2015 | Affordable Care Act, Health Care Reform, HHS, IRS, Obamacare, PPACA
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), in charge of enacting Obamacare, and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), in charge of enforcing the very same Affordable Care Act (ACA), have issued a statement about providing help at tax time for those who signed up...
by admin | Jan 8, 2015 | Affordable Care Act, Health Care Reform, HHS, Obamacare
Since Open Enrollment began on Nov. 15, nearly 6.6 million consumers selected a health insurance plan or were automatically re-enrolled in the Federally Facilitated Marketplace (FFM), according to a post on the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) blog. The...
by admin | Jan 6, 2015 | Affordable Care Act, HHS, Obamacare
A report released by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) provides the first detailed analysis of enrollment in the Obamacare marketplaces for the first month of the 2015 open enrollment period. About 87 percent of people who selected health insurance...
by admin | Dec 29, 2014 | HHS
Contracts to speed further development of two promising Ebola vaccines, known as rVSV-ZEBOV-GP and ChAd3 EBO-Z, could pave the way for commercial-scale production of millions of vaccine doses if clinical trials prove safety and efficacy, officials of the Department of...