Verify Community Health Plan of Washington eligibility in real time.
Community Health Plan of Washington supports electronic real-time eligibility. Send the check to payer ID CHPWA and the full benefits picture comes back in under a second, before the patient sits down.
Also billed as: CHPW · Community healthfirst medicare advantage
Under 1 second
The same Community Health Plan of Washington check that takes 15 to 25 minutes on the phone. Ten patients tomorrow: ten checks, or three hours on hold.
3 billing names
Community Health Plan of Washington shows up on cards under 3 names. Every one routes to payer ID CHPWA, and so do 9 older payer IDs still printed on cards. No guessing which card this is.
7 Community plans
verify in real time through Valian. One setup covers the whole Community family, Community Health Plan of Washington included.
First month free
Then $2.50 a check, only when you run one. No seat fees, no platform fee, no contract. Cancel any time.
The phone way
Call, hold, transcribe, repeat.
Verifying Community Health Plan of Washington by phone means a menu, a hold queue, and 15 to 25 minutes per patient while someone at the desk reads benefits back by hand. Ten patients on tomorrow's schedule is half a workday on hold.
The real-time way
Payer ID CHPWA, under a second.
The same check, sent electronically. Valian runs it automatically for every patient on the schedule before the day starts, and flags the ones that need a human look.
| By phone | In Valian | |
|---|---|---|
| Time per patient | 15 to 25 minutes on hold | Under a second |
| When it happens | Day of, squeezed between patients | Before the day starts, automatically |
| What you get | Notes scribbled while someone reads benefits aloud | The full breakdown, saved to the patient |
What a Community Health Plan of Washington eligibility check returns
- Whether coverage is active, with plan and group details
- Deductible, and how much of it is already met this year
- Annual maximum, and how much of it is left to work with
- Coverage percentages by category: preventive, basic, major
- Frequency limits on cleanings, exams, and X-rays
- Waiting periods, where Community Health Plan of Washington reports them electronically
Eligibility result
Sample data- Status
- Active
- Plan
- PPO · Group 8823
- Deductible
- $50 · $0 met
- Annual max
- $1,500 remaining
- Preventive
- 100%
- Basic
- 80%
- Major
- 50%
- Cleanings
- 2 / year
Returned in under a second · payer ID CHPWA
How practices handle this today, in their own words
Verbatim from recorded calls to dental offices. Names withheld.
We call the insurance, or I go on their website and do it. Yeah, we manually do it.
We have a third party insurance verification team that does it for us. I’m not too sure, maybe like seven, ten minutes.
Our system does it, and the ones that are not set up for electronic, we do ourselves.
How getting set up works
Sign up
About ten minutes: create the account, sign the agreement, and your free first month starts.
Connect your system
We connect your practice management software with your office manager. Open Dental, Dentrix, Eaglesoft, and more.
Checks run themselves
Every patient on the schedule gets verified automatically before their visit, Community Health Plan of Washington included. Your team just reads the results.
Under half an hour of your time all in. See the full walkthrough on the insurance verification page.
What Community Health Plan WA supports electronically
- Real-time eligibility (270/271)
- Yes, under a second
- Enrollment for eligibility
- None, checks work day one
- Dental claims (837D)
- Not offered electronically
- Claim status (276/277)
- Yes
- Electronic remittance (835)
- Yes, after a one-click enrollment, typically a few days
- Electronic funds transfer
- Not offered electronically
- Claim attachments
- Not offered electronically
Names and IDs this payer goes by
Community Health Plan of Washington · CHPW · Community healthfirst medicare advantage. Older cards may show payer ID 10329, 10421, 1927, 3445 and CHFMA. All of them route to payer ID CHPWA.
Payer site: www.chpw.org
How to verify Community Health Plan of Washington, step by step
Get the member ID and date of birth from the card or the patient.
Send the electronic eligibility request (a 270) to payer ID CHPWA.
Read the response (the 271): status, deductible, max, percentages, frequencies.
Save the breakdown to the patient. Valian does all four automatically, before every visit.
Community Health Plan of Washington runs Commercial, Medicare and Medicaid plans across Washington. Medicaid dental benefits change by state and by age, which is exactly what the check reads off the plan. Medicare dental benefits live in the specific Advantage plan, not in Medicare itself, so the plan on the card decides.
Community Health Plan of Washington, quick answers
Does Community Health Plan of Washington support real-time eligibility?
Yes. Eligibility checks to Community Health Plan of Washington clear electronically in under a second through payer ID CHPWA.
What payer ID do I use for Community Health Plan of Washington?
CHPWA for eligibility transactions. The same payer also appears on cards as CHPW, Community healthfirst medicare advantage.
What does a check cost with Valian?
$2.50 per verification, run automatically before every appointment. Your first month is free, with no contract and no seat fees.
Does Community Health Plan of Washington require enrollment before I can check eligibility?
No. Eligibility checks work from day one, with no payer enrollment paperwork.
Which Community Health Plan of Washington plans does this cover?
Community Health Plan of Washington runs Commercial, Medicare and Medicaid plans in Washington. The eligibility check reads the specific plan on the patient's card, whichever program it belongs to.
Can I get Community Health Plan of Washington remittances electronically?
Yes. Community Health Plan of Washington sends electronic remittance advice (835) after a one-click enrollment, typically a few days.
What if the patient's card shows a different Community name?
Alternate billing names route to the same payer ID, CHPWA. The check resolves them automatically.
More questions about verifying Community Health Plan of Washington? Schedule 15 minutes with us and bring your toughest plan.
Every Community Health Plan of Washington patient, verified before they walk in.
First month free, then $2.50 a check. No seat fees, no platform fee, no contract.
Book 15 minutes, demo or onboarding
Pick a time, then tell us on the form whether it is a demo or an onboarding call.
The Community family in the network
7 Community plans verify in real time through Valian.
Payer names and marks belong to their owners and identify the insurance company a practice can verify. Sample result shown for illustration; real results reflect the patient's actual plan. Payer capabilities can change between network updates.