WASHINGTON -- The HealthCare.gov website is back online Monday after a data center's failure Sunday caused an outage that blocked people from signing up for theAffordable Care Act, federal officials said.
The Obama administration also said Monday that a provision in the law reducing out-of-pocket prescription drug payments for Medicare recipients saved recipients $2.3 billion, or an average of $834 per beneficiary, during the first nine months of 2013. In Louisiana, the per-recipient savings averaged $756.
The HealthCare.gov website outage Sunday and early Monday was resolved Monday. "Verizon Terremark successfully resolved the issue with the networking component overnight," Department of Health and Human Services spokeswoman Joanne Peters said in a statement Monday, and as of 6 a.m., "the Data Services Hub was fully operational."
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