Dive Brief:

The CMS is temporarily calling back its furloughed employees to help during the open enrollment periods for Medicare and Affordable Care Act plans, a spokesperson for the agency confirmed to Healthcare Dive.

They did not specify how many staffers are affected, but the return to work should encompass the roughly 3,000 employees put on furlough due to the government shutdown earlier this month, according to the agency’s plan for a lapse in funding .

The employees will resume work on Monday “in order to best serve the American people amid the Medicare and Marketplace open enrollment seasons,” the spokesperson said. The CMS plans to pay them through funding collected through user fees from sharing data with researchers.

Dive Insight:

The CMS is bringing its furloughed employ

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