Category: Medicare
This category is a subset of Boomer Products. It would include information about Medigap plans and Medicare Advantage plans. It excludes Boomer products like additional or ancillary health plans, long-term-care and short-term-care plans, final-expense life insurance, and annuities.
Medicare.gov’s Plan Finder Being Replaced
Medicare.gov is launching a new version of “Medicare Plan Finder” in time for the Annual Enrollment Period of 2019. They will eventually close their current version of the Plan Finder. If you used the old version of the Plan Finder …
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 …
Medicare Announces It Has Finished Mailing New Medicare Cards!
In an email blast on 2/13/2019, Medicare.gov announced that it had finished mailing the last of the Medicare-number replacement cards to people who have been using Medicare cards using their social-security numbers. Here is the text making the announcement. This …
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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
Do’s and Don’ts of Medicare Compliance
Updated by Agent Survival Guide, a project by Ritter Insurance Marketing, a strategic partner of Stone Hill’s, for Medicare CY2018 Published by Sarah J. Rueppel Life as an agent before Medicare’s Annual Enrollment Period is a flurry of contracting and …
Regence Enables Online Medicare Supplement Applications to Be Attributed to Agents!
Dear Regence Blue Cross Blue Shield Producers, Clients can now apply for the new Medigap Plans N & G online using your personal enrollment URL links (PURL)! The online application process is: more intuitive, streamlined and faster desktop, laptop and …
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Tagged with: Agent Portal, BCBS, Blue Cross, Blue Shield, Idaho, login credentials, Medigap, online enrollment, Oregon, Personal Enrollment URL, Plan G, Plan N, Producer Center, PURL, Regence, Regence Ascend, Security, Utah, Washington
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