Maryland votes to scrap health exchange, use CT’s.
The board overseeing the Maryland health exchange voted unanimously Tuesday evening to scrap its dysfunctional website and adopt software developed by Deloitte Consulting and used by the more successful health exchange in Connecticut.
The software is free for Maryland to use but the state’s health secretary, Joshua M. Sharfstein, will negotiate an emergency $40 million to $50 million contract with the software company to develop the site. Isabel FitzGerald, secretary of the Maryland Department of Information Technology, who stepped in to help fix the exchange, will oversee the project.