This meeting is primarily for agents who have signed up to participate in Medicareful.com. Registration to be eligible to be listed in the initial 8/2/2010 launch is closing today. Agents are still able to request participation, however, they will not be eligible to be listed until 9/7. The second registration period will close on July [...]
Archive for July, 2010
Craig Ritter to Host First Medicareful.com Agent Webex
Posted in About Ritter Insurance Marketing, All, Website on July 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Managing Agent Photos for Medicareful.com Agents
Posted in About Ritter Insurance Marketing, All, Website on July 8, 2010 | 5 Comments »
We’ve found a quick, easy and free way to manage the rendering of agent photos for Medicareful.com agents. This will save us a bunch of time cropping and editing photos and enable you to quickly and easily change your photo if you want to! Agents participating in Medicareful.com should go to Gravatar.com to upload their [...]
New York Times Article Features Geisinger Health Plan’s Approach to Patient Care
Posted in Geisinger Health Plan, Pennsylvania on July 7, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Very nice write up for Geisinger in the NYT!
President Obama to Name Head of Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Today
Posted in All, CMS on July 7, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Here is the story from the New York Times. Apparently, the recess appointment will bypass the confirmation hearings on Dr. Berwick.
Clarification on Agent in Good Standing Rule for Broker Compensation on Medicare Advantage Sales
Posted in All, CMS, Medicare Advantage, Part D, Training/Certification on July 7, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Recently, CMS conducted a webinar to clarify their June 4th marketing guidelines. You can find information on the webinar (including the slide presentation, playback and transcript) here. I noted a number of interesting things in the call. I blogged about some of these yesterday. Additionally, CMS clarified it’s “Agent in Good Standing” rule. Previously, I [...]
Shenandoah Life Close to Finding Buyer
Posted in All, News, Shenandoah Life on July 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Shenandoah Life, currently under control of the Virginia Department of Insurance, has entered into a 90 day negotiation period with Prosperity Life. Prosperity Life’s president, Jose Montemayor, was a former DOI commissioner for the state of Texas who is also a partner in Black Diamond Capital Partners which owns AmeriLife Group which was one of, [...]
Clarification of CMS Broker Compensation Rules for Medicare Advantage
Posted in All, CMS, News on July 6, 2010 | 11 Comments »
There are a couple of areas in CMS Marketing guidelines where there seems to be widespread confusion on what insurance companies are allowed to pay and REQUIRED to pay to brokers. Internally replacing an Existing Company product – If you bring a piece of business to a Medicare Advantage company which “Internally Replaces” an existing [...]
MedPAC issues June 2010 Report to Congress
Posted in All, News on July 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’m a little disappointed that MedPAC didn’t include their “infamous” calculation on overspending to Medicare Advantage in their June 2010 report. One of my predictions for 2010 was that this figure would go below 10% (from the 14% which is widely quoted). Since the June report doesn’t include the calculation (for the first time I [...]
Now is the Time to Request your Medicareful.com Zip Code
Posted in About Ritter Insurance Marketing, Website on July 2, 2010 | 8 Comments »
We have opened up registration for agents working with Ritter Insurance Marketing to request their zip code for listing on Medicareful.com. To request your zip code, please visit our Homepage. The response so far has been overwhelming! So, we are going to cut off initial registration requests by the end of next week (July 9th, [...]
Insurance Product Training – July 5th – July 9th
Posted in All, Baltimore Life, Coventry, Education/Training, Final Expense Life, Genworth Companies, Health America, Individual Major Med, Medicare Supplement, States, Uncategorized on July 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This week a number of senior and individual insurance product trainings are available. Expand your knowledge in Medicare Supplement, Medicare Advantage, Final Expense and Individual products and in return grow your business. Registration is “one click” away at Ritter Insurance’s “Event’s Calendar”! (You must be logged in to register!) Monday, July 5th; No training events are scheduled at this time. Tuesday, July [...]
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