Stedi is now CAQH CORE certified
Jun 13, 2025
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CAQH CORE has officially certified Stedi for real-time eligibility checks.
As a result of HIPAA, payers, providers, and other parties are required to use the X12 270/271 EDI format for eligibility checks. This format is commonly known as X12 HIPAA.
But X12 HIPAA only covers part of the picture: the transaction schema. It leaves a lot of room for interpretation when it comes to topics like response content, error handling, and system availability. This opens the door to inconsistencies and reliability issues that make it harder for systems to talk to each other.
CAQH CORE certification exists to fix that.
What is CAQH CORE?
The Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare (CAQH) is a non-profit group backed by major health insurers and provider groups. In 2005, it created the Committee on Operating Rules for Information Exchange (CORE) to improve how healthcare systems exchange data. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) designated CAQH as the official rule authoring entity for HIPAA administrative transactions.
CORE builds on the HIPAA-mandated X12 standard. It further defines how to create, respond to, and transmit the X12 transactions. The CORE Operating Rules define stricter, more specific standards for how eligibility data should be exchanged, including:
Required data content in the 271 eligibility response, so data is complete and consistent.
Support for the CAQH CORE SOAP+WSDL and HTTP MIME Multipart protocols, as defined in the CORE Connectivity Rule vC2, to ensure secure and interoperable data exchange.
Standardized error messages to simplify troubleshooting.
Uptime, availability, and performance benchmarks.
These rules make system behavior more predictable and interoperable across the industry.
What Stedi’s certification covers
This certification validates our implementation as an Information Requestor for real-time eligibility checks. In practice, that means:
Our handling of 270/271 transactions follows the CORE spec.
Our use of the CAQH CORE SOAP protocol.
Our 271 responses are consistently structured, complete, and reliable.
We’ve passed an independent certification test confirming our compliance.
Why certification matters
If you’re building around eligibility, Stedi’s CORE certification saves you time and guesswork. You know exactly how our system behaves – and that it matches industry standards for speed, structure, and reliability.
Verify insurance with Stedi
CORE certification is one of the only public signals that a clearinghouse’s systems work as expected. Ours does.
Contact us to book a demo and start a POC.
CAQH CORE has officially certified Stedi for real-time eligibility checks.
As a result of HIPAA, payers, providers, and other parties are required to use the X12 270/271 EDI format for eligibility checks. This format is commonly known as X12 HIPAA.
But X12 HIPAA only covers part of the picture: the transaction schema. It leaves a lot of room for interpretation when it comes to topics like response content, error handling, and system availability. This opens the door to inconsistencies and reliability issues that make it harder for systems to talk to each other.
CAQH CORE certification exists to fix that.
What is CAQH CORE?
The Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare (CAQH) is a non-profit group backed by major health insurers and provider groups. In 2005, it created the Committee on Operating Rules for Information Exchange (CORE) to improve how healthcare systems exchange data. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) designated CAQH as the official rule authoring entity for HIPAA administrative transactions.
CORE builds on the HIPAA-mandated X12 standard. It further defines how to create, respond to, and transmit the X12 transactions. The CORE Operating Rules define stricter, more specific standards for how eligibility data should be exchanged, including:
Required data content in the 271 eligibility response, so data is complete and consistent.
Support for the CAQH CORE SOAP+WSDL and HTTP MIME Multipart protocols, as defined in the CORE Connectivity Rule vC2, to ensure secure and interoperable data exchange.
Standardized error messages to simplify troubleshooting.
Uptime, availability, and performance benchmarks.
These rules make system behavior more predictable and interoperable across the industry.
What Stedi’s certification covers
This certification validates our implementation as an Information Requestor for real-time eligibility checks. In practice, that means:
Our handling of 270/271 transactions follows the CORE spec.
Our use of the CAQH CORE SOAP protocol.
Our 271 responses are consistently structured, complete, and reliable.
We’ve passed an independent certification test confirming our compliance.
Why certification matters
If you’re building around eligibility, Stedi’s CORE certification saves you time and guesswork. You know exactly how our system behaves – and that it matches industry standards for speed, structure, and reliability.
Verify insurance with Stedi
CORE certification is one of the only public signals that a clearinghouse’s systems work as expected. Ours does.
Contact us to book a demo and start a POC.
CAQH CORE has officially certified Stedi for real-time eligibility checks.
As a result of HIPAA, payers, providers, and other parties are required to use the X12 270/271 EDI format for eligibility checks. This format is commonly known as X12 HIPAA.
But X12 HIPAA only covers part of the picture: the transaction schema. It leaves a lot of room for interpretation when it comes to topics like response content, error handling, and system availability. This opens the door to inconsistencies and reliability issues that make it harder for systems to talk to each other.
CAQH CORE certification exists to fix that.
What is CAQH CORE?
The Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare (CAQH) is a non-profit group backed by major health insurers and provider groups. In 2005, it created the Committee on Operating Rules for Information Exchange (CORE) to improve how healthcare systems exchange data. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) designated CAQH as the official rule authoring entity for HIPAA administrative transactions.
CORE builds on the HIPAA-mandated X12 standard. It further defines how to create, respond to, and transmit the X12 transactions. The CORE Operating Rules define stricter, more specific standards for how eligibility data should be exchanged, including:
Required data content in the 271 eligibility response, so data is complete and consistent.
Support for the CAQH CORE SOAP+WSDL and HTTP MIME Multipart protocols, as defined in the CORE Connectivity Rule vC2, to ensure secure and interoperable data exchange.
Standardized error messages to simplify troubleshooting.
Uptime, availability, and performance benchmarks.
These rules make system behavior more predictable and interoperable across the industry.
What Stedi’s certification covers
This certification validates our implementation as an Information Requestor for real-time eligibility checks. In practice, that means:
Our handling of 270/271 transactions follows the CORE spec.
Our use of the CAQH CORE SOAP protocol.
Our 271 responses are consistently structured, complete, and reliable.
We’ve passed an independent certification test confirming our compliance.
Why certification matters
If you’re building around eligibility, Stedi’s CORE certification saves you time and guesswork. You know exactly how our system behaves – and that it matches industry standards for speed, structure, and reliability.
Verify insurance with Stedi
CORE certification is one of the only public signals that a clearinghouse’s systems work as expected. Ours does.
Contact us to book a demo and start a POC.
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Stedi is a registered trademark of Stedi, Inc. All names, logos, and brands of third parties listed on our site are trademarks of their respective owners (including “X12”, which is a trademark of X12 Incorporated). Stedi, Inc. and its products and services are not endorsed by, sponsored by, or affiliated with these third parties. Our use of these names, logos, and brands is for identification purposes only, and does not imply any such endorsement, sponsorship, or affiliation.