Our Lead portal is a free service to allow agents to manage their clients and prospects. We also use our lead portal to distribute and manage leads from the various lead offerings which are available through Ritter Insurance Marketing. Currently, Lead Portal is a basic Customer Relationship Manager (CRM) for maintaining your database and organizing [...]
Archive for February 20th, 2010
Ritter Insurance Marketing Announces New Look and Better Functionality to Agent Lead Portal
Posted in About Ritter Insurance Marketing, Website on February 20, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Where is the Medicare Physicians Fee Schedule Fix?
Posted in Uncategorized on February 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Initially, I’d heard that the “Doc Fix” might be included in the “Pay-Go” bill. More recently, it was supposed to be in the “Jobs Bill” which is up for a Cloture vote on Monday. Senate Majority Leader Reid removed the “Doc Fix” as well as the fix on the cap on Medicare Therapy spending. I’m [...]
Avalere Analysis Finds Average Medicare Advantage Premium Increased by 14.2% in 2010
Posted in 2010 MA Plans on February 20, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Here is the story as covered by the National Underwriter. Interestingly, the study finds that premiums would have increased by 22% if Medicare Beneficiaries simply stayed in their existing plans. If you look a little deeper at the actual release from Avalere (you can find it here), you’ll find that HMO, LPPO, RPPO and SNP [...]
CMS Issues Advance Notice of 2011 Medicare Advantage and Part D Payment Policies and 2011 Draft Call Letter
Posted in CMS, News on February 20, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Here is a link to the entire document from the CMS website. Here are some quick notes on the 45 Day Advance Notice and Draft Call letter for 2011: Page 5 – Trend calculated at 1.38% Page 14 – 2011 Coding Intensity Adjustment of 3.41% Page 17 – Phase out of IME (Indirect Medical Education) [...]
