We are pleased to announce that 2025 Contract Re-certification will be available in Centene Workbench for your attestation on Sept. 3, 2024! Annually, brokers are required to complete certification requirements to market and sell Medicare Advantage products. All annual certification requirements must be complete by Oct. 1, 2024, to be able to market and sell Wellcare products, avoid suspension, and receive Medicare Advantage compensation.

New in Contract Year 2025

Contract Re-certification will be released independent of Annual Certification Training (ACT) for Contract Year 2025.

By Oct. 1, 2024, you must:

• Execute the 2025 contract through the 2025 Re-certification Workflow in Centene Workbench (in place of the usual Summary of Changes).
• Complete 2025 ACT and AHIP or NABIP Medicare Certification training on or before Oct. 1, 2024, as part of the certification requirements to market and sell 2025 Wellcare MA Part D products.

Note: you will still be prompted to confirm your information on file is current and/or make changes, where needed, in Centene Workbench. 

Please be on the lookout for additional communications regarding re-certification.

Prescription Drug Plan (PDP) Compensation

We also wanted to let you know some important information about Wellcare’s PDP products in 2025.

As you may know, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) has resulted in significant changes to Part D including:

• Elimination of the Coverage Gap or “donut hole”
• A new $2,000 out-of-pocket spending cap
• A shift in cost-sharing responsibility in the catastrophic coverage phase
• A new cost sharing smoothing option

To continue providing access to high-quality healthcare and Part D coverage that helps families and individuals, we have made a difficult decision – effective Jan. 1, 2025 – to cease new and renewal commissions for PDP beginning with the 2025 plan year.

This communication serves as notice of termination without cause of your existing TPME marketing services agreements with Centene for Medicare products effective Dec. 31, 2024. As noted above, Medicare Advantage product compensation will continue into 2025, with your new contract once executed.

If you have any questions, please contact your local sales leader.

We thank you for your continued partnership.

If you have completed the 2025 AHIP & ACT required training, you will still need to log back into Centene Workbench to complete the 2025 TPME agreement when the 2025 TPME becomes available. This step of completing the 2025 TPME agreement is crucial to ensure you are ready and authorized to sell for the 2025 AEP season. You will not be ready to sell for 2025 until you complete the 2025 TPME contract, 2025 America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), and 2025 Wellcare Annual Certification Training (ACT) training. Please ensure that you have completed each action item.

Note: In addition to AHIP, Wellcare now accepts Medicare certification completed through the National Association of Benefits Insurance Professionals (NABIP).

Please keep an eye out for further communications regarding the availability of the 2025 TPME and instructions on how to complete the signing process. For more information regarding 2025 training, please refer to this previous communication.

We appreciate your attention to this matter. Should you have any questions or need assistance, feel free to reach out to our Broker Support Team at 866-822-1339.

As always, thank you for your continued partnership!

We are excited to announce that we are one week away from kicking off the Plan Year 2025 (PY2025) Annual Medicare Certification process!

In preparation for the PY2025 Medicare selling season, we want to provide you with some key dates to be aware of moving forward.

Key Dates – Plan Year 2025 (PY2025)

Please mark your calendars for the following important launch dates: