Senior Markets
Attention: Medicare Agents Licensed in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia
CMS will provide a Special Enrollment Period (SEP) for individuals affected by Hurricane Florence who need to enroll in, disenroll from or switch Medicare health or prescription drug plans and have missed another enrollment period (i.e., either aging in or a SEP).
Attention: Medicare Agents Licensed in Florida Panhandle, Georgia and Alabama *** SEP Notice for Individual Affected by Hurricane Michael***
CMS will provide a Special Enrollment Period (SEP) for individuals affected by Hurricane Michael who need to enroll in, disenroll from or switch Medicare health or prescription drug plans and have missed another enrollment period (i.e., either aging in or a SEP).
Aetna will be announcing the agents who qualify for their 2018 Front Runner program within the next few weeks. Qualifications are based on sales of Aetna and Coventry Individual Medicare Plans (MA/MAPD, PDP) during the recent Annual Election Period.
Initially, CMS intended on mailing the Medicare cards with MBIs in April, which included new Medicare customers in all regions and existing Medicare customers within the Mid-Atlantic/PA region. However, CMS has pushed back the roll-out to existing customers until May; new customers will still receive MBIs in April.
CMS will be removing Social Security Numbers from Medicare cards to prevent fraud, fight identitiy theft, and keep taxpayer dollars safe. They will be mailing the new Medicare cards from April 2018 through April 2019. Click here to view how CMS will be mailing the new Medicare cards in phases by geographic location.
The 2018 Annual Election Period (AEP) ends Thursday, December 7. This means all Medicare AEP marketing efforts must cease on that date. Please make sure you follow the guidelines below when submitting your final AEP enrollments!
As noted in Tip 3 of the Plan Year 2017 Computer Configuration Requirements Quick Reference Guide, if you are having difficulty accessing the plan year 2017 registration training modules on the Marketplace Learning Management System (MLMS), you may be able to resolve the issue by enabling pop-up windows. See the quick reference guide for step-by-step instructions on how to configuer your computer for accessing the MLMS.
This quick reference guide also offers other suggestions to improve your user experience in accessing and working through the registration and training through the MLMS including:
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2017 AHIP RELEASE!
America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) has released their 2017 Medicare Certification training. Completion of this course is one of the annual requirements to market and sell 2017 WellCare products. To access your AHIP training, click into the AHIP site and log in.
New Era has introduced some fantastic new incentive programs that will get you going!
The Summer Bonus Campaign will help get you to the Leader's Conference in beautiful Riviera Maya even