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The Idaho Third Party Administrator license

Third Party Administrator

Collects premiums or settles claims on somebody else's life, annuity or health coverage. Three ways in, and which one applies turns on a list of seven states.

Course

None

This license has no pre-licensing course route.

Ways in

1

There is no state exam for this license.

Exam

n/a

Not required on any of the routes below.

Every way to qualify

  1. Route 1 Apply as an Idaho home state administrator, or on another state's license, or register

    No state exam for this license

    Which of the three the applicant needs

    • An Idaho home state third party administrator license under 41-911, open to an administrator in any state, which allows the holder to administer insurance or self-funded coverage

    • or

      a third party administrator license in one of the seven states Idaho recognizes under 41-912, which are Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri, New Hampshire and West Virginia, on which an Idaho nonresident license issues

    • or

      An Idaho third party administrator registration, which allows the holder to administer coverage provided only by self-funded plans not regulated by title 41 and does not allow the administration of insurance

    and what the home state application carries

    • The applicant's organizational documents and bylaws; NAIC biographical affidavits for everybody directly or indirectly responsible for the conduct of its affairs, including every director or trustee, the principal officers or partners, any holder of 10% or more of the voting stock or interest, and anybody else who exercises control or influence; and audited annual financial statements for the two most recent fiscal years demonstrating a positive net worth, with a hardship exemption available on written application and good cause shown

    41-911(1) puts the home state first: a person applies in its home state and must hold that state's license before performing any administrator function in Idaho. 41-911(2) is what an Idaho home state application carries, and the financial test is the substance of it, audited statements for two fiscal years demonstrating a positive net worth, with a hardship exemption the director may grant on good cause for unaudited statements instead. There is no examination and no course. The Department publishes the three routes plainly and the middle one is a closed list of seven states: an administrator licensed in Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri, New Hampshire or West Virginia may take an Idaho nonresident license under 41-912, and an administrator licensed anywhere else applies for an Idaho home state license instead. Seven named states is a narrower reciprocity than any producer clause in this Code. The third route is a registration rather than a license and the line between them is the coverage: registration "allows a TPA to administer coverage provided only by self-funded plans not regulated by title 41, Idaho Code. To administer insurance coverage requires a TPA license."The fee is $300 for an Idaho home state application. Licensed administrators file an annual report under 41-914 by 1 July, and every administrator, licensed or registered, files an immunization assessment by 15 March and a health plan survey by 1 May. Renewal runs on a two-year cycle in a window that opens on 1 November and closes on 31 December.

    Read at legislature.idaho.gov on 2026-08-19

No national seller sells a course for this license. Nothing could: 41-911 asks for organizational documents, biographical affidavits and two years of audited statements showing a positive net worth, and no examination appears anywhere in chapter 9.