Fax your applications with a Fax Transmittal Sheet to: 713-583-2738 and include your email address. You will receive a confirmation email within 24 business hours of receipts. Follow the three easy steps below for submission: Use a Fax Transmittal Sheet with all apps sent via fax. Complete all sections of the Fax Transmittal including your [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Submitting Family Life Medicare Supplement Applications Just Got Easier!
Posted in Family Life, Insurance Companies, Medicare Supplement on July 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Aetna Update Regarding Initial Compensation for MAPD and PDP Enrollments
Posted in 2009 MA Plans, Aetna, Insurance Companies, Medicare Advantage, Part D on July 17, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Aetna recently received very good news from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regarding initial compensation for 2009 Medicare Advantage and Part D Prescription Drug Plan enrollments. All PDP to MAPD applications for 2009 will be paid the base commission rate. However, CMS also informed Aetna that they will need to make necessary changes to [...]
Insurance Trade Groups Sends 1,000 Lobbyists To Capitol Hill
Posted in About Ritter Insurance Marketing, News on July 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This is the report from CQ Healthbeat on the “fly-in” to Washington, DC yesterday. I reported on my involvement with the fly-in (Click here to view). Not sure if I would call myself a “Lobbyist”, but that’s the headline of the news story. Here is an overview of how it was reported: “Just as Congress moves [...]
My Trip to Washington DC
Posted in About Ritter Insurance Marketing on July 16, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Here are a couple of photos from my trip to Washington DC: This is a photo of about 1/2 of the reception room for the cocktail reception. Estimates were that about 1,400 insurance agents participated in the Health Care Reform “Fly In”. Here I am outside of my hotel on [...]
Important change for Aetna Individual Medicare Supplement Plans
Posted in Aetna, Insurance Companies, Medicare Supplement on July 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As a reminder, effective July 1, 2009, enrollment applications for Aetna’s Individual Medicare Supplement Plans must be submitted to the address of our new Third Party Administrator, CHCS, Services, Inc. Applications submitted to the old address are being forwarded. New address for enrollment applications: Aetna Life Insurance Company P.O. Box 13547 Pensacola, FL 32591-3547 You [...]
MedPAC Commissioner Argues “draconian” Medicare Cuts will not Control Health Costs
Posted in CMS, News on July 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Nancy Kane is a Harvard professor and a Commissioner on the MedPAC board. She writes an Opinion in the New York Times that if Medicare’s Payments are cut for In-patient hospitalizations, the costs will shift to some other place (like squeezing a balloon). Costs will most likely be shifted to Private Insurance. Kane argues that [...]
Aetna Will Begin 2010 Certification on Monday July 27th
Posted in Aetna, Education/Training, Training/Certification on July 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
See our Aetna Certification page for the details of what I know at this point. Once the certification opens on July 27th, we will have all of the detail on how to certify. We do not expect to receive any 2010 product details until early August. Keep an eye on our Events Calendar for product [...]
Ritter Insurance Will be Hosting on Online Webinar on July 16th and 17th to Cover Universal American (Pyramid, American Progressive, Today’s Options, TexanPlus) Medicare Advantage Plan Filings for 2010, including Private Fee for Service (PFFS), PPO and HMO products
Posted in 2010 MA Plans, American Progressive, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Pyramid Life, South Carolina, Texas, Universal American Companies, Virginia, Wisconsin on July 7, 2009 | 3 Comments »
If you are an insurance agent and you would like to learn about Universal American (including Pyramid, American Progressive, Today’s Options and TexanPlus) plans for the upcoming plan year (2010), please join one of the three Online Webinars we will be hosting with Elizabeth Benz, Assistant Vice President of Universal American as our guest speaker. Universal American [...]
Genworth (American Continental, Continental Life and Genworth Companies) “Free Gas Card” promotion for Medicare Supplement Sales begins TODAY, July 6th
Posted in American Continental, Continental Life, Genworth Companies, Genworth Life Insurance Company, Genworth Life and Annuity on July 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Summer Gas prices got you down? Genworth wants to help you “pump up” your Medicare Supplement Sales this Summer!! Genworth (American Continental, Continental Life and Genworth Companies) is running a “Free Gas Card” promotion beginning TODAY, July 6th through October 2nd. The products covered include Medicare Supplement for Genworth Life and Genworth Life and Annuity and [...]
New Aetna Medicare Policy for Producers With High Complaint Rates
Posted in Aetna, Insurance Companies, Marketing MA Plans, Medicare Advantage, Training/Certification on July 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
To ensure compliance with Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) marketing guidelines, Aetna Medicare has implemented a new process to monitor and resolve complaints against producers who sell their Medicare products to individual beneficiaries. The new procedure will begin (or should I say, has begun) on July 1st, 2009. To view the new procedure [...]
