Part B's BIG INCREASE for 2018
Social Security announced the anticipated 2% increase in cost of living allowance on Friday and with any increase in SS comes an increase...


Medicare OEP Is Coming Back (In 2019)
As we struggle to build the NAHU membership, agents should be aware that NAHU is working hard on our behalf and we all benefit from their...
Psssst, There Are NO, NO, NO $ecrets
Insurance agents who get paid less than street level commission are usually working for an agency that provides leads, an office and...


Anthem Rx Benefits Set Take Off In 2020
Anthem has been in a long, painful divorce with Express Scripts. This is the type of arcane insurance news that most agents don't care...

Getting An "A" In Insurance
When the government (the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS)) started rating insurance plans on a 5 star system 9 years ago, everyone...

The Wild Rules of Release
Insurance agents are fast to sign contracts and slow to read them. Every carrier defines their release rules and agents agree to abide by...


HHS Secretary Price is Forced Out - How Insurance Agents Will Be Impacted
Insurance agents finally had Health and Human Services Secretary that was a friend of our industry, and had the potential to serve as a...

Sharing Agent IDs Is A Fast Track to Career Destruction
With the start of AEP, it's good to remind all agents and agency owners that getting busy and stressed out to make the AEP deadlines is...

"Look Mom, I'm A FMO Now!"
As it turns out, anyone can be a Field Marketing Office now, just print it on your business card and it’s done. Ok, it’s not that easy....


Fifty Percent Of Your Client Will Buy Dental Plans If You JUST ASK
Gordon Marketing wouldn't offer dental plans for 25 years because we felt that they were not a very good proposition for the client. That...