The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services had already spent $499 million on public health insurance exchange technology contracts by February, and it had incurred obligations to spend a total of $1.4 billion on exchange IT contracts.

Investigators at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General gave CMS' exchange IT spending totals in a newly released catalog of CMS exchange IT contracts. CMS is helping its parent, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, run the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act exchanges in 36 states, and it's helping HHS oversee the state-based exchanges in 15 states and the District of Columbia. 

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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.