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

Issue Date: October 09, 2014

Program Area: Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP)

Question: Will each Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP) policy have the policy's own ST-SE and the entire groups ST-SE's rolled up under one GS-GE?

Answer: Every 834 ST-SE will hold the employee and his or her dependent information. The enrollments for the plans that contains the first 14 characters of the Qualified Health Plan (QHP) in common will be in the same GS-GE.

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