The Wall Street Journal interviewed Manatt's Joel Ario, a managing director with Manatt Health, for an article on the federal government's decision to delay moving Healthcare.gov to a new hosting service, which was supposed to fix reliability problems.
As reported by The Wall Street Journal, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services signed a contract last year to replace Verizon Communications with Hewlett-Packard Co. as the host of the federal exchange website. The Verizon platform had a series of outages last year that shut the site and affected the federal data hub. CMS said it needed to stick with Verizon, because it had run out of time to thoroughly test the HP platform. The site could face heavier traffic this year due to a shorter enrollment period coupled with millions more expected users. Contractors continue to work on other parts of the site's revamp.
"It's going to be improved, but given all the challenges it will be far from perfect," said Ario.
Read the article here.