2 Months to Go & No Info
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Or at least go and take the CMS courses to get certified SamIAm, before HHS changes their mind about them being FREE of charge.
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You aint lying................1
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Lets see....I need to get certified(6 hour classroom instruction only), and, pass a test.
I'll only jump through all the hoops after you tell me how much I will make.
Not the reverse!
I'll only jump through all the hoops after you tell me how much I will make.
Not the reverse!
Do you realize the plight the carriers are in? This administration doesn't seem to have a clue how to implement this. How can they predict commissions when the rules are still being in written or delayed.
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California...classroom only? Crap. I think New York is that way too. Extreme positions from the two coasts. Let's hope its not contagious. Those who wait until after the Exchanges go live may need to be fingerprinted and have background checks if too much fraud materializes.
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First, a completely unsubstantiated rumor from a BCBS agent I know. He said he heard a Blue Cross employee say that agent commissions for enrolling people in the exchanges would be $15 each.
Hope that turns out to be wrong. I cannot imagine anyone living under CMS rules and investing time and effort to enroll people for the equivalent of a happy meal for two. $15 makes the $56 I get for Medicare PDP enrollments look sweet!!
If these carriers actually paid $15 per enrollment I believe they would be handling 100% of them in-house, and that can't happen. Using military terms, this would be the biggest cluster-foxtrot in history if the carriers have to handle everything.
On second thought, it's going to be a C-Ftrot no matter what. But I digress.
Now, something more intriguing. This language appears in one of the first CMS training courses I have gone through:
A QHP issuer must pay the same broker compensation for QHPs offered through a Federally-facilitated Marketplace as they do for similar health plans offered in the state but outside the Federally-facilitated Marketplace. In fact, this compensation approach is a required condition of the QHP certification process for QHPs offered in the Federally-facilitated Marketplaces and Federally-facilitated SHOP.
Now surely to goodness we can't be getting full commission on these enrollments -- but the above verbiage came straight from the CMS training. Or are the carriers going to drop our commission for health plans to $15 now? Inquiring minds want to know.
What's a man to think about this??
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Humana hasn't shown themselves to be foolish (wanting to be in all states), but they've shown they are attempting to be aggressive where they are. I'm thinking their comp plans will be better than $15 PMPM.
What is interesting is seeing where BCBS does come out. I think they are going to be the first to release in most markets, or that's what other carriers are waiting on, instead of them setting the market.
What is interesting is seeing where BCBS does come out. I think they are going to be the first to release in most markets, or that's what other carriers are waiting on, instead of them setting the market.
