HHS Contractors Conference: 'The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly'

Two days before Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Kathleen Sebelius announced on December 11 that she was ordering a comprehensive investigation into the reasons behind the Obamacare launch debacle, HHS announced an upcoming Contracting with CMS Conference with topics such as “The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly of Contract Proposals.” Based on Sebelius’s testimony before a Congressional committee, her agency’s experience with contracts in recent years have included less of the former and more of the latter. CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) is the division of HHS that was largely responsible for hiring contractors to develop and run the federal government’s Obamacare marketplace.