Here is an article about the ACO regulations from NAHU. The full regulation will be published in the April 7th Federal Register and NAHU will provide comments. Interesting that Medicare Beneficiaries can “opt out” prospectively by changing physicians. Medicare beneficiaries don’t “join” the plan, they are auto-enrolled based on where they get primary care. Also, [...]
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NAHU Comments on Accountable Care Organizations (ACO)
Posted in Uncategorized on April 4, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Agent/Broker Commissions Continue to Get Attention
Posted in All, Insurance Products, News, Uncategorized on March 16, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Obviously, we all know what has happened to agent commissions since the advent of PPACA. Efforts by NAHU, from the beginning, have been widely publicized but seen by industry outsiders as “self serving” (isn’t that what lobbying is all about…). Recently, as shown in my blog post on 3/11, the NAIC Task Force drafted their [...]
Ritter Launches New Functionality to MGA Web Services
Posted in About Ritter Insurance Marketing, Uncategorized, Website on March 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Recently, we launched an enhancement to MGA agent registration to allow Agencies and Agent Recruiters to enter agents into the Ritterim.com database. In order to register downline agents into your hierarchy, you must have access to the Ritterim.com website and have “MGA Permissions”. Now, when you register new agents, you can set their commission level [...]
CMS Announces Preliminary 2012 Benefit Structures for Medicare Part D and Medicare Advantage Prescription Drug Plans
Posted in CMS, Uncategorized on February 22, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Here is a link to the announcement from CMS. As has been the case in the past couple years, the Standard Benefit for the Medicare Prescription Drug benefit (whether PDP or the Prescription Drug part of an MAPD) is little changed from the current year. Also contained is some information on the preliminary numbers for [...]
Insurance Product Training – Feb 7th – Feb 11th
Posted in All, Baltimore Life, Bravo, Education/Training, Final Expense Life, Genworth Companies, Individual Major Med, Insurance Companies, Insurance Products, Medicare Supplement, States, Training/Certification, Uncategorized on February 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Do you need insurance product training? RitterIm.com has an up-to-today posting of all the top carriers trainings on the events calendar. Registration is “one click” away at Ritter Insurance’s “Events’ Calendar”! (You must be logged in to register!) Monday, Feb. 7th; There are no scheduled trainings at this time. Tuesday, Feb. 8th; Baltimore Life Tele-sales [...]
Webinar review for CareMore, Preferred Care Partners and Bravo.
Posted in 2011 MA PLans, All, Bravo, CareMore, Education/Training, Enrollment Periods, Insurance Companies, Medicare Advantage, New Applications/Forms, New Business Submission, Preferred Care Partners, States, Uncategorized on January 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This past week we held webinars for Caremore, Preferred Care partners and Bravo to review their Special needs plans. Below you will find a copy of the presentation along with any supporting materials. We did record the webinars so click on ‘Link to recording’ to listen. Caremore presentation Caremore website Certification page on wiki Link to [...]
ADP Question and Answer Review
Posted in 2011 MA PLans, About Ritter Insurance Marketing, Enrollment Periods, Final Expense Life, Individual Major Med, Medicare Advantage, Part D, Uncategorized on January 11, 2011 | 3 Comments »
We would like to thank everyone who attended one of our ADP webinar training events. We covered a lot of information during the events and there where great questions that we didn’t get a chance to answer due to time, so below we’ve posted the answers. If you have a question about ADP that was not [...]
New Agent Orientation
Posted in Uncategorized on December 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Ritter Insurance Marketing is hosting a ‘New Agent Orientation’ webinar. New Agent Orientation – What Ritter has to offer? 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (EST) Craig Ritter will discuss the different features of www.RitterIM.com and show you the tools available by Ritter Insurance Marketing to help streamline your sales process. Click on one of the following [...]
Insurance Product Training – Nov. 29th – Dec. 3rd
Posted in 2011 MA PLans, All, Baltimore Life, Coventry, Education/Training, Insurance Products, Medicare Advantage, Molina Medicare, Preferred Care Partners, States, Uncategorized on November 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
If you still need last minute training, look no further. Here is a list of the upcoming Insurance Trainings. Registration is “one click” away at Ritter Insurance’s “Event’s Calendar”! (You must be logged in to register!) Monday, November 29th; No scheduled training. Tuesday, November 30th; Coventry GHP-CCP New Agent Training via the web is open to all agents. [...]
Baby Boomers Enrolling in Medicare Prescription Drug Plans
Posted in All, News, Uncategorized on November 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Here is an interesting story from NPR. Talks about how Baby Boomers are perceiving the Medicare.gov website and the Medicare Prescription Drug benefit. The story implies that it may be wise to seek out professional help, but doesn’t give any resources for Medicare Beneficiaries to find an agent. You can click on the link which [...]