Category: Government
This category addresses all government oversight, regulation, and so on: federal or state. It applies across product lines.
On Medicare’s Medical Savings Account (MSA)
If a Medicare Medical Savings Account, an MSA, is available in your state, it is already or soon will be an indispensable arrow in your product quiver. Here’s why: an MSA constitutes a 3rd major category of Medicare products to …
Coordination of Health Insurance Benefits With Traditional Medicare
National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (No publication date given except 2018) What Is Coordination of Benefits? When a person is covered by more than one health insurance carrier it is important to know which insurance is responsible to pay …
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Exciting Changes to the 48-Hour Scope of Appointment Rule
This is an article from RitterIM’s Agent Survival Guide Published by Chad Houck | Posted 9/29/2017 The 2018 Medicare Marketing Guidelines turned heads by removing the 48-hour Scope of Appointment requirement. Many agents are asking what this means in terms …
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Tagged with: 2018 MMG, AEP, Medicare Marketing Guidelines, Medicareful, RitterIM, Scopes of Appointment, SOA
Medicare and Veterans Affairs (VA) Benefits
You can have both Medicare and Veterans Affairs (VA) benefits. However, Medicare and VA benefits do not work together. Medicare does not pay for any care that you receive at a VA facility. In order for Medicare to cover your …
Tagged with: annual physical exams, extra help, Medicare, VA, VA facilities, Veterans Administration
5-minute Video about Veterans and Military Retirees Getting Medicare Advantage
This post, a video produced by UnitedHealthcare, is one of several posts on military veterans and military retirees and their retirement health plans: VA Health Benefits and Tricare For Life (TFL). Some of the information is specific to UnitedHealth, although …
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Tagged with: MA-Only, MAPD, Military Retirees, TFL, Tricare For Life, VA, VA Benefits, Veterans, Veterans Administration
Individual Exchange Health Plans to Go Up Average of 30 Percent
Christian Delbert, Shutterstock SALT LAKE CITY — Rates for health insurance plans on the individual marketplace are likely to rise by an average of 30 percent next year, the Utah Department of Insurance said Thursday. The second-lowest silver plan — …
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Tagged with: ACA
PHI Specified
PHI is health information that contains one or more of the following identifiers: a. Names of individuals and relatives b. Postal addresses c. All elements of dates, like birthdates d. Telephone and fax numbers e. E-mail addresses f. Social Security …
Tagged with: PHI
Glossary of Terms for the Senior/Medicare Market (Ongoing Construction)
This glossary is for Medicare agents and Medicare beneficiaries who want to understand the jargon being tossed around by people in the Medicare system: government bodies, government employees, insurance companies, online-call-and-enrollment centers, advocacy groups, insurance agents, and advisers. The glossary …
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Tagged with: abbreviations, acronyms, baby boomers, definitions, election periods, glossary, HICN, SEP, terms
Aetna-Humana Trial Date May Jeopardize Merger
Aetna-Humana Trial Date May Jeopardize Merger U.S. District Judge John Bates is set to hear arguments on the Aetna-Humana merger on December 5. The deal must close by December 31 or Aetna will have to pay Humana a $1 billion …
Tagged with: Aetna Merger