Special Needs Plan

Acronym: SNP

A Special Needs Plan (SNP) is a Medicare Advantage (MA) coordinated care plan (CCP) specifically designed to provide targeted care and limits enrollment to special needs individuals. A special needs individual could be any one of the following: 1) an institutionalized individual, 2) a dual eligible beneficiary, or 3) an individual with a severe or disabling chronic condition, as specified by CMS. A SNP may be any type of MA CCP. There are three major types of SNPs: 1) Chronic Condition SNP (C- SNP), 2) Dual Eligible SNP (D-SNP), and 3) Institutional SNP (I-SNP).