Operation of a health exchange within the PPACA
17 September 2010
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) mandates that each state have a health exchange in place by January 1, 2014. These exchanges will be either of the state's invention or under the aegis of the federal Department of Health and Human Services. This paper, the latest in a series of papers on exchanges, addresses the functions of an exchange and examines various operational considerations.