Consumer-Reported Verification Data Sources for State Medicaid Eligibility Determination

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is conducting market research to identify and assess industry capabilities for providing consumer-reported verification data services to support state Medicaid agencies in meeting federal eligibility determination requirements. The goal is to develop the EMMY (Eligibility Made Easy) platform, a centralized, API-based data exchange infrastructure that will provide participating state Medicaid agencies with standardized access to trusted third-party data sources for eligibility verification. The RFI seeks information on industry capabilities across multiple verification data domains, including payroll and employment verification, educational enrollment verification, asset and financial verification, and identity verification. • The RFI is focused on Medicaid eligibility verification, but the verification data services described may have applicability to other public assistance programs. • The EMMY platform is being designed as an open-source platform, and vendors are encouraged to describe their current API architecture and data exchange approach. • Vendors are asked to provide information on their experience providing verification data services to federal, state, or local government clients, particularly in the context of public benefits programs. • The RFI is not a solicitation for proposals, and responses are not offers and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract.