CMS FAQ: Insurer is Required to Obtain HPID for Fully Insured Health Plan

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (?Ç£CMS?Ç¥) issued a FAQ and quick reference guide outlining the process for a health plan to obtain a health plan identifier (?Ç£HPID?Ç¥). Among its guidance, CMS explains that for fully-insured plans, the insurer is treated as offering a controlling health plan (?Ç£CHP?Ç¥) and thus must obtain the HPID. The individual employer plans are sub health plans (?Ç£SHPs?Ç¥) to the fully-insured CHPs. The SHPs may obtain HPIDs, but are not required to. The CMS FAQ can be found here. The CMS quick reference guide can be found here.