The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has completed testing part of the "data hub" that's supposed to sit at the heart of the new exchange system.

CMS hopes to complete the rest of the testing by the end of August.

CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner gave Congress an update on data hub testing progress Wednesday at a hearing on the "Obamacare information sharing apparatus," organized by a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee subcommittee and a House Homeland Security Committee subcommittee.

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Allison Bell

Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.