the main contractor involved in building Maryland's failed state-based insurance exchange, must repay $45 million to settle claims that it botched the 2013 rollout, The Baltimore Sun reported July 21. The state severed ties with Noridian four months after the website fizzled, just minutes after going online for the start of the first open-enrollment period. Maryland later adopted technology from Connecticut's exchange. Last spring, the exchange board demanded that the company return a significant chunk of the $73 million it was paid. Noridian responded by saying that the state added more than 200 technical requirements alongside other changes just two months after the contract was awarded. U.S regulators still must approve the deal as much of the funding was federal. Noridian is a subsidiary of Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota. Neither the state nor Noridian accepted liability in the settlement.
(From Inside Health Insurance Exchanges' E-Alert)
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