Modern Healthcare quoted Manatt's Joel Ario, a managing director with Manatt Health, for an article about Vermont's waiver for exemption from building a website for its small-business insurance exchange, hoping that employers enroll directly through insurers instead. Vermont is the first state to send a finalized request to the CMS, and its waiver could serve as a national model.
In an analysis on the state's proposal, Ario said that a number of other states might follow Vermont's example and consider direct enrollment with insurers rather than enrollment through the current web portal known as the Small Business Health Options Program.
Read the article here.