Understanding Benefit Data Extraction

Just as you provide information to employees regarding provider benefit plans, you also provide information to benefit providers about employee changes to plan elections.

Similarly, federal agencies send changes in health plan elections to the OPM.

To send benefits data to providers:

1. Specify the information to extract from your database.

2. Run the Enrollment Reporting Snapshot program to extract the data and write it to the snapshot tables: BN_SNAP_PER, BN_SNAP_JOB, and BN_SNAP_PLAN.

   Run this step only once per reporting period and generate all of your extracts from a single snapshot.

3. Create carrier extract files for your benefit providers.

4. Review the data in the snapshot tables or review a log that contains the date and time that the Enrollment Reporting Snapshot, Carrier Extract, and Carrier Interface Supplier Integration processes were run.