Bay State Adjusts Exchange Program
Massachusetts regulators have been tinkering with the design of their state’s health insurance exchange.
Glen Shor, executive director of the state’s Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority, talked about the authority’s Web-based Commonwealth Choice exchange recently at a hearing in Boston on health care costs organized by the Massachusetts of Health Care Finance and Policy.
The authority’s exchange helped influence the drafters of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA). One PPACA section requires states and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to set up a system of health insurance exchanges by 2014. T