Andy Slavitt misled Congress on Obamacare state health exchange spending, House panel says – Washington TimesReal-time results and news from the West Virginia and Nebraska primariesTop health official misled Congress on Obamacare exchange spending, House panel saysFeds can point to only about $21 million in money they kept from being spent on struggling state health exchanges far less than the $200 million Andy Slavitt, acting administrator at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), …

A House panel said Tuesday that a top administration health official misled Congress last year by seeming to suggest that the government had already recaptured hundreds of millions of dollars from struggling state exchanges under Obamacare.

Instead, federal officials can point to only about $21 million in money they kept from being spent far less than the $200 million Andy Slavitt, acting administrator at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, said had been recouped during testimony last year to the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

All told, the government doled out some $4.6 billion to states that decided to set up and run their own health care exchanges, including the states that botched their rollouts, leaving customers in the lurch and forcing the federal government to prolong enrollment and grant exemptions from the Affordable Care Act.

Republicans have demanded that the administration try to get back some of the money they say the states wasted on badly run exchanges.