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CMS Enhanced Direct Enrollment

The pathway that lets a web broker or issuer run the whole ACA enrollment experience on its own site instead of handing the consumer off to HealthCare.gov.

Year 9 (PY 2026–PY 2027) · CMS — Direct Enrollment Partners · published 2026-04-10

Standing today
Implemented
Production showcase · completed for a healthcare client

01Standing

Implemented

A project opens into working evidence lanes, and collection runs against a real target — a registered test plan or a production release path.

Blueprint with 9 evidence lanes. 6 of 6 registered test plans run against a real target. Sealed-package release route with a controlled evidence corpus behind it (MarketLink CMS EDE controlled UAT collection).

Engagement
CMS EDE Year 9
Control set
Nine CMS EDE evidence lanes with a source-native requirement set (Application UI Toolkit items, Eligibility Results Toolkit cases, Partner Test Case Suite ids, API FIT ids, Communications Toolkit requirement numbers). CMS publishes the audit guidelines as PDFs; verbatim requirement text is not ingested, so there is no checksummed control catalog for this regime.
Native identifiers
Application UI Toolkit UI Questions Item #, Eligibility Results Toolkit IDs, Partner Test Case Suite IDs, API Functional Integration Toolkit IDs, Communications Toolkit requirement numbers, ARC-AMPE / NIST / CMS control IDs.
Evidence lanes
  1. 01Application UI Toolkitconsumer flow screenshots · broker flow screenshots · agent flow screenshots · source-row evidence index · applicationAnswers JSON
  2. 02Eligibility Results Toolkiteligibility result screenshots · raw eligibility JSON · test scenario result CSV
  3. 03Partner Test Case SuiteCMS UAT test run log · test case screenshots · raw hub responses · auditor-ready package manifest
  4. 04API Functional Integration Toolkitrequest/response JSON · API scenario result CSV · mTLS/certificate evidence · payload security evidence
  5. 05Communications Toolkitlegal page screenshots · notice text extracts · Spanish-language option evidence · source mapping CSV
  6. 06Eligibility Determination Noticesgenerated EDN PDFs · notice metadata JSON · delivery/archive proof
  7. 07Identity Proofingconsumer identity-proofing screenshots · RBA/GetRecord response evidence · IDM/Okta configuration evidence · fallback/documentation path proof
  8. 08Registration and Onboardingagent registration screenshots · broker registration screenshots · MFA setup evidence · approval gate evidence
  9. 09Security Controls - ARC-AMPE / MARS-ESSPP · SAR · POA&M · ISA · security control screenshots · configuration exports

02Registry record

checked 2026-08-06
Registry status
Roadmap · modelledWe model the regime — control families and at least one crosswalk map on disk — but no control catalog is ingested.
Control units
Not on record — no catalog ingested and no authority-published count cited.
Control families
Application UI · API FIT · Language access · Accessibility · ARC-AMPE baseline
Applies to
healthcare · insurance · US
Verification
Secondary — corroborated across independent sources; the authority blocks automated fetch or does not state it plainly. checked 2026-08-06
Pending change
The Year 9 audit submission window closed 2026-07-01. CMS has said it intends to publish updated guidelines for calendar-year 2026 audit submissions (Year 10); no Year 10 document was found at this check.Expected: Unannounced

03Version ledger

2 editions
Year 8Supersededdate not published
Year 9 (PY 2026–PY 2027)Current edition · supersedes Year 8date not published
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