Issued by: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)

Issue Date: November 18, 2014

Program Area: Distributed Data Collection (DDC) for RA Including HCRP/EDGE Server

Question: How does the EDGE server determine whether a Health Insurance Oversight System (HIOS) ID is linked to the EDGE server; what will happen if an issuer loads two (2) separate EDGE Server Enrollment Submission (ESES) files with unique HIOS IDs to the same EDGE server?

Answer: Issuers are required to set-up a separate EDGE server for each HIOS issuer ID. Issuers will only submit files with data for a single issuer ID to each EDGE server. The EDGE application for each issuer-specific EDGE server instance will have a reference file with all of the Plan IDs associated with the particular Issuer ID. The data will be rejected if the plan IDs in the file do not match any of the Plan IDs in the issuer-specific plan reference file stored in the application.

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