Growth Updates, Russian Hackers, National General Medicare Supplement Review, and LIVE Charleston Agent Event..
This is our internal office meeting from May 10, 2021:
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With updates to our internal process and a new product offering, making it much easier to help those who are choosing Medicare Advantage plans.
This is our internal office meeting from April 12, 2021:
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Do you create a memorable client experience with your phone calls?
Doing so means that your clients are far more likely to refer you to their friends and family.
This is one of the topics we covered in this agency meeting, held 02/01/2021.
Also, updates on Accendo expansion and US Fire Medicare Supplement, IASADMIN, and CSG Quote Engine..
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UPDATE: December 2020
The big carriers, Aetna, Cigna, Mutual of Omaha, et al have made it known that they have no intention of paying agents for writing Medicare Supplements to Trial Right clients who were 65 when they started with a Medicare Advantage plan and, within that first 12 months, opt to go back to original Medicare where they can, per Medicare, buy ANY Medicare Supplement plan in the market.
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October 5, 2020 Office Meeting Notes under the video. To see more of our office meetings, click here. See the video: <[email protected]@> {“@context”: “http://schema.org”,”@type”: “VideoObject”,”name”: “Officemeetingfinal1″,”description”: “This video contains Officemeetingfinal1″,”thumbnailUrl”: “https://embed.vidello.com/71/z2vymqat14br50tf/video/splash.jpg”,”uploadDate”: “2020-10-05T20:31:27.000Z”,”duration”: “PT36M28S”} Included in this meeting: Medicare…
Tips for helping seniors during the Medicare AEP in this Monday Morning Meeting.
An agent recently wrote in a support ticket that she had just lost a client to an Advantage plan and this happened for June 1st. She went on to say that this plan was not a Five Star Medicare Advantage…
The internet is abuzz with promotion after promotion toward agents.
Everyone calls themselves an expert these days with the goal of recruiting more agents to follow them like the pied piper.
𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹?
𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙖 𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙖𝙙𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙡𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙣𝙚𝙬 𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨, 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙇𝙈 𝙁𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙀𝙭𝙥𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙚 𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙙𝙤?
𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐀𝐬𝐤 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐎𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐖𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐫𝐝:
✔ How did YOU exactly start in the insurance business?
✔ What experience do you have in growing an agency?
✔ Is it possible to duplicate your agency's success today?
✔ What are your core values in dealing with customers as it relates to profits?
Updates from this week that we spent in Washington, DC and what to expect in Medicare for this AEP and beyond.. {“@context”: “http://schema.org”,”@type”: “VideoObject”,”name”: “DCTrip1″,”description”: “This video contains DCTrip1″,”thumbnailUrl”: “https://embed.vidello.com/71/uushnj3wj97ibahk/video/splash.jpg”,”uploadDate”: “2019-08-29T12:01:16.000Z”,”duration”: 1574.29} NAHU is working on several legislative initiatives….
This video covers the importance of covering the gaping holes in Medicare Advantage plans such as the daily hospital costs, cancer costs, and short-term home healthcare. This is a recent webinar from GTL, which has (in our humble opinion) perhaps…
This is a pretty good webinar from Humana on the opportunities beyond AEP for the Medicare Advantage space. Video: {“@context”: “http://schema.org”,”@type”: “VideoObject”,”name”: “Humana How to Navigate OEP and New SEP Opportunities”,”description”: “This video contains Humana How to Navigate OEP and…
Important AETNA Part D As the Aetna/CVS merger has completed today, it means the topic I covered October 14th is in full effect for all Aetna Part D folks, come January 1. See the video: {“@context”: “http://schema.org”,”@type”: “VideoObject”,”name”: “Aetna…
See the video below.. but the short conclusion: It is established that cold calling seniors as the basis for generating Medicare Advantage sales, using the premise of Medicare Supplement calls, is known as “bait and switch” and is illegal, per…
In the first quarter of the year, starting in 2019, seniors will be able to make ONE change in or out of MAPD or PDP into another one, if they wish. This expands the “disenrollment period”, which has been in existence…
by Leslie Small | FierceHealthcare
Medicare Advantage organizations (MAOs) continue to do a poor job of maintaining accurate provider directories—and it’s landing some in hot water with the federal government.
In its second round of online provider directory reviews, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services found that 52% of the provider directory locations listed had at least one inaccuracy.
Those errors included providers who weren’t at the location listed, providers who didn’t accept the plan at that location, providers who weren’t accepting new patients despite the directory saying that they were, and incorrect or disconnected phone numbers.
When CMS conducted its first review of MAOs’ provider directories, it found that 45% of locations listed were inaccurate. While the report does say that the first and second reviews aren’t directly comparable “due to minor updates to the review methodology,” at the very least, the latest review’s results indicate the problem isn’t getting any better.
CMS also noted that its findings were not skewed by a few organizations but instead were widespread in the sample reviewed, which was about one-third of all MAOs. “Very few organizations performed well in our review,” the agency said.
At a minimum, provider directory errors can make members frustrated with an MAO, the report noted. But they can also cast doubt on the adequacy and validity of the MAO’s network as a whole, and even more seriously, prevent members from accessing services that are critical to their health and well-being.
RELATED: Study takes stock of MA hospital networks
Based on the results of its reviews, CMS has sent 23 notices of noncompliance, 19 warning letters and 12 warning letters “with a request for a business plan” to Medicare Advantage insurers.
However, the agency emphasized that MAOs themselves “are in the best position to ensure the accuracy of their plan provider directories.” It also said it was encouraged by pilot programs aimed at developing a centralized repository for provider data that would be accessible to multiple stakeholders.
In the near term, CMS added, MAOs should perform their own audits of their directory data and develop better internal processes for members to report errors.
See the original article here:
https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/cms-chip/medicare-advantage-provider-directory-errors-network-adequacy
If so, in addition to the AHIP test, there is now another, separate test administered only through CMS and it is required.
This test is on Waste, Fraud, and Abuse, as there always had been in the AHIP test already, but now it's required separately.
Courtesy of United Healthcare, this is a link to the instructions as to how to find and take this simple test:
Should you use your personal name, when calling for clients, or use a company name?
That is the question answered in this webinar:
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Now See their video: My Notes, with the timestamp I'm referring to: 4:32 You can offer any of our Med Supps Guaranteed Issue (if they're cancelled off of their MAPD plan). This is true of any company, by the way….
A bipartisan group of senators, as well as the very powerful AHIP group lobbied the administration to not cut funding. With the mid-term elections coming quickly, the administration listened and has decided to put off the cuts to Medicare Advantage….
Medico's New: Hospital Indemnity Plan. This new plan is more competitive, easier to sell, and through their electronic application, easy to enroll. You can contract with Medico now for a pending state and they will begin processing of your contract….
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