Category: General

Medicare Fraud Alert: Genetic Testing Scam

From the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General, “Fraud Alert: Genetic Testing Scam” – Updated August 13, 2019. The US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General is alerting the public about a fraud scheme involving genetic testing. Genetic testing fraud occurs when medicare is billed for […]

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Medicare.gov Plan Finder Changes are Coming

Many agents utilize Medicare.gov’s Plan Finder to run their clients’ drug lists each year in the search for the “best” coverage available. In doing so, agents have saved thousands of drug list ID’s and passwords so they can go back into the system the following year, retrieve the list and re-check the results. Starting October […]

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LIAM Starts September 1st!

September 1st marked the beginning of Life Insurance Awareness Month, making it the perfect time to have conversations with your Medicare clients and prospects to see if they have adequate life insurance coverage, and to see if they have appropriately planned for their end-of-life needs. It is no false tagline, oftentimes a customer can secure […]

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Can Your (Future) Clients Find You Online?

The Baby Boomer Generation, those born between 1946 and 1964, represents the single largest group of individuals that will transition from the workforce to retirement, happening from 2011 to 2029. Doing the math, it works out to approximately 10,000 per day or, even more granular, one every 8 seconds. They control over 70% of disposable […]

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Clients losing Medicare Cost or MA coverage? Enrollment opportunity doesn’t end today!

Agents in Minnesota have had a particularly busy AEP this year with over 300,000 Medicare Cost plan members in that state losing their coverage at the end of this month. In other areas of the county, smaller pockets of Medicare beneficiaries are also losing coverage as some Medicare Advantage and Cost plans are not renewing […]

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Health Insurance Reforms like Wisconsin’s HIRSP Offer a Way Forward

Today the state of Wisconsin’s Commissioner of Insurance Ted Nickel released the following op-ed titled “Health Insurance Reforms like Wisconsin’s HIRSP Offer Way Forward.” https://oci.wi.gov/Pages/PressReleases/20170517HIRSPOpEd.aspx Commissioner Nickel Op-Ed: Health Insurance Reforms like Wisconsin’s HIRSP Offer Way Forward Date: May 17, 2017 Obamacare is falling apart. One third of US counties have only one health insurer […]

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