Tip Tuesday! U.S. says 15,000 health care enrollments didn’t get to insurers

By Alex Wayne

(Bloomberg) — The government failed to send data to health insurers for about 15,000 people who enrolled in Obamacare through early December, an error corrected last week before it could jeopardize their coverage, the U.S. said.

The percentage of enrollments that aren’t transmitted to insurers, a process known as an “834 transaction” is now close to zero, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said in a report over the weekend.

While the government announced Dec. 1 that it fixed many of the bugs and errors that had frustrated consumers using its insurance-enrollment system, garbled back-end communications with carriers have taken longer to sort out. The data transmissions are critical to complete the enrollment of millions of people seeking coverage under the Affordable Care Act that was the signature domestic achievement of President Barack Obama’s first term.

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