Pacific Business News - The Hawai'i Health Connector has received a $61.8 million federal grant to help set up a health insurance exchange in the islands.
The grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will go toward such areas as community outreach, language access, customer relations and information technology training and operations.
The exchange, which was established as a nonprofit last year, is scheduled to launch in January 2014. Hawai'i was the first state in the nation to declare its intent to set up a state-certified health insurance exchange to help carry out President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul.
