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Medicare Enrollment Center

Medicare Enrollment Center

Medicare Enrollment Center

Pinnacle Financial Services, a top Medicare FMO, provides our partner agents with all the technology to be their own Medicare enrollment center.

Pinnacle’s Connect4Medicare, an online enrollment platform, has been the latest and most convenient method of enrolling your clients online. Connect4Medicare is specifically focused on Medicare Advantage, Medicare Supplement & Part D.

This service, made by the same company that created and maintains Medicare.gov, has been designed to combine all of the top carrier’s online tools in one easy and convenient place. One of Connect4Medicare‘s most popular features is the Physician, Pharmacy, and Drug lookup tool. This resource combines all of the carrier’s provider directories, formularies, and pharmacy lookups in one place.

Gone are the days of logging in to various carriers’ websites, or checking through pages and pages of provider directories to check to see if a doctor may be in network. Simply type in the zip code and every plan available will populate along with a link to check the physician, drug, or pharmacy, saving you a substantial amount of time.

The main purpose of Connect4Medicare is to allow agents to sell in three different ways:

  • Face to Face: In this scenario, agents would be in front of the client and able to enroll them online, using a computer or tablet, while having the convenience of all the products and carriers in one place.
  • Over the Phone: Should agents be selling over the phone, they have the availability of sending an electronic SOA, completing the consultation, and then sending their client the application to complete online.
  • Personalized Client Facing Website: Every agent gets a personalized website that is customized with every carrier and plan they are certified to sell, (similar to the process of Medicare.gov.) Clients can enter their information, shop and compare plans, and even enroll themselves within a plan on their own, without any agent assistance.

For more information, contact a Pinnacle Financial Services representative today!

Bob Brzyski

Bob Brzyski

VP - Marketing & Business Development

x7742 | bbrzyski@pfsinsurance.com

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Medicare Plan Finder Changes

Medicare Plan Finder Changes

Medicare Plan Finder Changes

The Medicare Plan Finder is a tool on Medicare.gov that allows you to search for Medicare Advantage (Part C) and Medicare Prescription Drug (Part D) plans that might be available where you live.

These plans are sold by private insurance companies like UnitedHealthcare, Humana, and Aetna. The Medicare Plan Finder has been a helpful way of compiling some of your options into one place so that you can more easily narrow down your selection.

Many agents use the Medicare Plan Finder tool on Medicare.gov to compare plans for clients to find the best options for the health insurance and prescription drug plans.

So you may be asking, what is CMS changing with the Medicare Plan Finder tool. The new Plan Finder process will now require a client to have an account on Medicare.gov to save their information.

There are several challenges with this process:

  • Consumers typically start to examine plan options prior to being on Medicare. They will now only be able to save their searches with an account set up.  The search also no longer is including total maximum out of pocket.
  • Many seniors are either not able or willing to set up an account for security reasons or lack of literacy with computers.  Need the assitance of an insurance professional.
  • Now, for an agent to assist a consumer the consumer will need to give the agent their ID and password, which is less secure than the current process.
  • Changes effective as of Open Enrollment 2019.

Proprietary Solutions from Pinnacle Financial Services are available to all agents at no cost.

Connect4Medicare instantly quotes, compares, and enrolls your Medicare Advantage, Part D, and Medicare Supplements clients all in one place.

Pinnacle gives Connect4Medicare to all of our agents. You will now need this type of software more than ever!

Contact the Medicare experts at Pinnacle Financial Services today to get started.

Bob Brzyski

Bob Brzyski

VP of Marketing & Business Development

x7742 | bbrzyski@pfsinsurance.com

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Medicare Advantage Leads

Medicare Advantage Leads

Medicare Advantage Leads

Medicare Advantage lead generation is more and more the life blood of insurance agents in the Senior Market. Here at Pinnacle Financial Services we take the time to test all lead programs before we make available. Price, return percentages, appointment ratios and of course closing rates are all factored in to the final decision of whether a program is promoted.

The best Medicare Advantage lead program right now is available to all agents working with Pinnacle. As a FMO for all the top Medicare Advantage carriers, we know going into AEP it’s crucial to have a proven Medicare lead program for our agent distribution.

Are you planning on your best AEP yet? Have you put your goals to paper? Do your goals include a proven lead generation program?

If you have not answered yes to all these questions you need to call us now. Here at Pinnacle Financial Services, our success is measured by our agent’s success

Contact the Medicare experts at Pinnacle Financial Services today at 1-800-772-6881 x7731 or email healthsales@pfsinsurance.com.

Bob Brzyski

Bob Brzyski

Vice President - Marketing & Business Development

x7742 | bbrzyski@pfsinsurance.com

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2020 AHIP Training

2020 AHIP Training

2020 AHIP Training

2020 AHIP Certification Training is available as of, June 17, 2019

This is the first step in becoming certified to sell 2020 Medicare Advantage plans.

Pinnacle Financial Services has all the certification information for all of the Medicare Advantage carriers available including any and all discounts including:

Remember, certifying for 2020 will also certify you for 2019 products.

As more information about which carriers will require AHIP for 2020 certification becomes available, you’ll be able to find it in the AEP toolkit on www.pfsinsurance.com.

This will give you access as well to all of the 2020 Medicare Advantage first looks. Don’t be last finding out all of the upcoming product enhancements coming to Medicare Advantage. Medicare Advantage has offered extra benefits in addition to those covered by traditional Medicare. These supplemental health benefits include dental, vision, and hearing. Now, MA plans have new flexibility to offer more supplemental benefits – a consequence of the CMS Rule expanding supplemental benefits for Medicare beneficiaries. The new expanded benefits include in-home care, caregiver support, transportation, and meal delivery to name a few.

The Medicare experts at Pinnacle Financial Services are here to help. Call today to get ready to have the best AEP selling season yet.

Don’t forget to visit our YouTube to stay on top of all the latest going on in insurance marketing today including training on our state of the art Connect4Medicare.com. Our all in one quote and enrollment system for Medicare Advantage, Medicare Supplements and Part D is available to all Pinnacle agents at no charge!

For more information, contact a Pinnacle Financial Services representative today!

Bob Brzyski

Bob Brzyski

Vice President - Marketing & Business Development

x7742 | bbrzyski@pfsinsurance.com

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2020 Medicare Advantage Commission

2020 Medicare Advantage Commission

2020 Medicare Advantage Commission

Raises are coming to agents for 2020 Medicare Advantage. Commission increase was announced by the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services, (CMS).

CMS 2020 Medicare Advantage Commissions Announced as following (Source):

MA & Section 1876 Cost Plans
Compensation Type National CT, PA, & D.C. CA & NJ PR & U.S. Virgin Islands
Initial Year $510.00 $574.00 $636.00 $350.00
Renewal Years $255.00 $287.00 $318.00 $175.00
PDPs
Initial Year $78.00
Renewal Years $39.00

To get all the details by carrier or by state-specific, for your 2020 sales, reach out to the Medicare Advantage team at Pinnacle Financial Services.

For more information, contact a Pinnacle Financial Services representative today!

Bob Brzyski

Bob Brzyski

VP - Marketing & Business Development

x7742 | bbrzyski@pfsinsurance.com

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