Cigna 2018 Trip to Banff

Insights picked up from the Cigna top producer's excursion to Banff, Alberta Canada for the 2018 trip:   Cigna has grown incredibly fast. They will be converting over more states to the CHLIC (Cigna Health and Life) brand, while trying their…

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2018 Medicare Supplement Summit – St. Louis Updates

Make sure that the organization you are working with on Medicare products are plugged in.  There are a few, brand-new copycat “trainers” out there who have yet to build anything that are touting themselves as “experts' who have zero relationships with…

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Medicare Advantage Penetration by County – from CMS

Data provided by CMS (Center for Medicare/Medicaid Services) can help you pinpoint where you should focus your marketing efforts. This information helps to find the Medicare Advantage saturation numbers for each county in the U.S. Why? They will tell you,…

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Aetna Webinar on Plan N

On Wednesday, March 18, 2018, Aetna did their first webinar announcing an increase in commissions on Plan N in certain states. Here, in the webinar replay below, you can skip ahead to indicated areas to zero in on the information….

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Mutual of Omaha Sales Leaders Trip 2018

The Mutual of Omaha Sales Leaders trip for 2018 was awesome. We went to Milan, Italy the week before and then met the Mutual trip folks in Killarney, Ireland right after spending St. Patrick's Day in Dublin. What a trip…

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March 2018 Medicare Update


After a meeting in Palm Springs with some top producers, I came away with some good news for those in the Medicare business.
On location in San Diego, here's my update on the industry and what's coming.

Remember, we can write a Medicare Supplement up to 6 months prior to their Part B start date.
Some notable exceptions to these include carriers that do not allow it (see your Agent Guides).
We know these to be Anthem, Humana, and Cigna (90 days).

What do you use when they have no Medicare card yet and you're writing a T65 application? See below!

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Selling by Phone From Mexico

Obviously, if you can sell using the telephone, you can sell from anywhere you can have access to a telephone. In the past few months, I have heard from our members who had just sold a case while out on…

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CIGNA Update: Meeting with High-Level Exec

UPDATE: April 23, 2018: The Cigna executive now denies that he told us March 9 was the implementation date, although multiple staff members were there and took notes on this specific date.  They are now back-tracking on this and have…

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Real World Sales Call

Eugene shared one of his recent sales calls here. Here you will hear a lady that thinks it's not worth pursuing and says, repeatedly, that she will just stay where she is. Well, she didn't. She signed up for a…

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Non-Participating Medicare Doctors & Claims

While the vast majority of doctors fully participate in accepting original Medicare (estimated 96%), some do not. How is this treated? Some great resources on this topic already exist. The best is from the Kaiser Family Foundation and is here:…

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January 2018 Update

A few updates that you should be aware of, involving the CUL (now Manhattan) dental plan, Mutual of Omaha, Aetna, and Bankers Fidelity. Shortcuts to the Updates: Aetna Expansion Update Bankers Fidelity Update CUL Dental Update Mutual of Omaha Expansion…

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Texas TRS-Care Update

If you are selling in Texas, you are probably familiar with the TRS (Texas Retirement System). It has been getting lots of buzz lately as seniors are fleeing the program and wanting to be on original Medicare with a Medicare…

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Idaho and North Carolina Agents

If you sell in Idaho, you likely received the warning from the Idaho Department of Insurance via e-mail this situation involving contacting seniors on Plan F and attempting to get them a better Plan G. See the video:   Idaho has…

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Tip for Your Website: Must Have!

Google has again reminded the internet community that, very soon, your website will be both penalized in search and marked as UNSAFE in browsers if you do not have the necessary security protocol in place on your website. Here is…

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LIVE Medicare Q&A Session 09-22-17

The marketing and seasonal FAQ webinar covering a variety of topics including GPM's new dental product, Mutual of Omaha's new dental product, Manhattan Life's new brand of WULA, and more. See the video: Mutual of Omaha Dental Product Availability as…

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September 15 Update – Getting Ready for AEP

Four Videos here on AEP, including a unique Part D opportunity:   Here we talk about what you should be doing to get ready for the Annual Election Period (AEP) which is officially from October 15 through December 7th. During…

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Agent Fined $82,000,000 for Wrong Marketing

Yes, you read the headline correctly. This agent is facing a proposed $82 MILLION fine from the FCC for the sole reason that he was using a fake Caller ID on his robocalling ventures.  See the video:   See the…

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