HHS moves to shore up Healthcare.gov

In one of her first orders of business as new Health and Human Services Secretary, Sylvia Mathews Burwell has made management changes aimed at ensuring that HealthCare.gov is robust enough to handle the upcoming open enrollment period. Chief among them, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will put in place a principal deputy administrator for agency-wide policy and operational program coordination, according to HHS. Additionally, CMS will also hire a marketplace chief executive officer and is actively recruiting a chief technology officer for the federal insurance exchange.