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Fitch: Bypassing healthcare.gov An Unlikely Positive for U.S. Insurers

A team of agency staff, software contractors and insurers is working on fixing the enrollment reports, known in the industry as 834 forms, said tCenters for Medicare and Medicaid Services spokeswoman.

The chief obstacle for health insurers is essentially a lack of insight into who’s enrolling in their HIX plans, says an independent merchant bank focused on mergers and acquisitions, financial restructuring and principal investing services in the health care industry.

The lack of hurricanes in the Atlantic will result in a low double-digit decline in pricing for 2014 renewals, Fitch said.

The website’s software initially prevented Social Security numbers from being included in data sent to insurers, blocking complete enrollments in health plans. A fix announced yesterday will end 80 percent of those errors.

Drivers in emerging markets are twice as likely to buy a car based on in-vehicle technology options than vehicle performance, according to Accenture report.

Parts of the Obamacare enrollment system used to pay insurers are being pushed back from January in the latest technology delay for the president’s U.S. health care overhaul.

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