Two eHealth announcements in one day! Well, technically the Humana press release was on Friday. . . Here is the announcement on PlanPrescriber, Inc. Thanks to Russ for the heads up on this one!! PlanPrescriber, Inc., formerly Experion Systems, Inc., runs some websites for assisting Medicare Beneficiaries with Plan choices for Prescription Drugs. They run [...]
Archive for May 3rd, 2010
eHealth Acquires Plan Prescriber, Inc.
Posted in News, Uncategorized on May 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Communicating Personally Identifying Information and Personal Health Information with Ritter Insurance Marketing
Posted in About Ritter Insurance Marketing, Website on May 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
As many of you are aware, the HITECH Act places requirements on Insurance Agents to communicate in a Secure manner when dealing with Personally Identifying Information (PII) and Personal Health Information (PHI). Such things as Full Name, Date of Birth, Address, Phone, Social Security, HICN, Mother’s Maiden Name, etc., are examples of PII. Health Information [...]
Craig Ritter to Host Medicare and Medigap Basics Course via Webex on May 4th at 2pm Eastern Time
Posted in About Ritter Insurance Marketing, Medicare Supplement, Uncategorized on May 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Sorry for the short notice on this! I’ll be conducting a training on Medicare and Medigap basics tomorrow at 2pm ET. I recommend this course highly to agents who are new to selling Medicare Supplement products or who have limited experience. Intermediate level agents will likely get some value and it may be a good [...]
Enrollment Periods for Part D for Medicare Beneficiaries who Defer their Part B
Posted in Enrollment Periods, Medicare Advantage, Uncategorized on May 3, 2010 | 7 Comments »
I had a call with an agent and this issue can be confusing, so I thought I’d blog about this so that everyone can benefit from this. In cases where a Medicare Beneficiary defers their Part B (due to the ACTIVE EMPLOYMENT) of Self or Spouse, and then enrolls in Part B later when either [...]
Proposed Law to Regulate Wall Street May Impose “Fiduciary” Standard for Sale of Financial Instruments
Posted in News, Uncategorized on May 3, 2010 | 1 Comment »
This story is covered in the National Underwriter. A “Fiduciary” standard is a much higher standard to meet than current “Suitability” standards. Generally, “Suitability” is determined at the point of sale and is not on-going. A “Fiduciary” standard continues beyond the point of sale to all points in time thereafter. Additionally, a product which meets [...]