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ICHRA Ecosystem Scope of Work Template

Roles, responsibilities, service boundaries, and implementation governance for the employer's ICHRA ecosystem.

How to Use This SOW

Use as a practical operating document, not a plan document or legal opinion. Identify ecosystem parties, define service boundaries, and attach evidence.

Purpose and Operating Philosophy

Define roles, service boundaries, handoffs, escalation paths, and evidence requirements so critical tasks are not assumed.

Role Coding and Responsibility Types

Use Lead, Support, Review, Informed, and Excluded language to clarify external scope records without creating live assignment tracking.

Parties, Scope, and Baseline Assumptions

Document employer, HR, finance, counsel, brokers, administrator, enrollment support, payment support, compliance support, payroll, continuation support, carrier or issuer, and employee-facing support lanes.

Governance Model and Decision Rights

Name who can approve plan design, contribution levels, class structure, vendor scope, privacy terms, payroll treatment, notice delivery, and employee-facing language.

Escalation Standard

Coverage-risk, payment-risk, privacy, notice-deadline, payroll, continuation, claims, Medicare, Marketplace, or state-specific questions should be escalated to the assigned qualified reviewer or vendor lane.

Strategy & Plan Design

Coordinate feasibility, market review, contribution modeling, class design, affordability assumptions, plan-year timing, and employer approvals.

Finance & Funding

Document funding controls, payment setup, premium support, payroll coordination, reconciliation, discrepancies, and failed payment escalation.

Operations & Implementation

Organize census intake, eligibility validation, employee classes, new hire process, termination/offboarding, QLE/SEP routing, support pathways, and launch readiness.

Compliance & Governance

Coordinate plan documents, SPD/SMM/SAR resources, ICHRA/QSEHRA notices, continuation rights, privacy, reporting support, claims/appeals, and audit evidence.

Employee Experience

Create support maps, education resources, FAQ cards, plan shopping instructions, enrollment support, reimbursement guidance, payment support, and escalation paths.

Notices, Forms, Evidence, and Reporting Matrix

Retain final versions, recipient lists, delivery logs, approval records, source references, and reviewer notes where applicable.

Data, Systems, Privacy, and Security

Maintain data maps, secure portals, access controls, BAA or no-BAA determinations, privacy contacts, and incident escalation references.

Exclusions, Dependencies, and Disclaimers

Exclude legal, tax, payroll, fiduciary, continuation, privacy, claims, Medicare, Marketplace, and state-specific advice unless separately engaged and permitted by law.

Acknowledgment and Signatures

Collect external sign-off for roles, service boundaries, decision rights, evidence ownership, and escalation paths.

Role Code Reference

ER

Employer / Plan Sponsor

Employer

HR

Employer HR

Internal

FIN

Finance / Payroll

Internal

L

Legal / Compliance Counsel

Review

EE

Employee

Employee

ESP

Employer-Side Broker / Consultant

Advisor

IFP

Individual Market Broker

Advisor

EIV

Enrollment & Illustration Vendor

Vendor

PV

Payment / Reimbursement Vendor

Vendor

CV

ACA / ERISA Compliance Vendor

Vendor

Responsibility-Code Guide

A

Accountable / Final Approver

Final employer-side accountable party for a function. Document externally before relying on it.

L

Lead / Primary Lane

Primary lane for coordinating a function in a SOW or exported record.

S

Support / Contributor

Supports the lead lane with inputs, execution help, or escalation.

R

Review / Approve

Reviews specialized questions before a communication or conclusion is used.

I

Informed

Receives information but is not the primary lane for the resource.

E

Excluded / Not in Scope

Not included unless separately documented in an external scope record.