REMINDER: SEP [SPECIAL ENROLLMENT PERIOD] TRAINING AND
AFFIRMATION REQUIRED BY FEBRUARY 15 FOR SEP COMMISSIONS
Producers selling any SEP policies MUST COMPLETE BCBSIL-sponsored
annual SEP training and affirm completion to receive compensation for the sale.
This important SEP training is not a test.
Simply read the training and affirm.
Should take just 10 minutes to complete!
To qualify for your compensation, you will need to complete the mandatory SEP Training Click Here by FEBRUARY 15, 2018. PLEASE NOTE: FEBRUARY 15th is a FIRM deadline. Writing producers/subproducers selling any policies as a result of a SEP must complete BCBSIL SEP training and affirm their completion no later than FEBRUARY 15, 2018, to receive compensation for such sales.
After you complete the mandatory SEP Training, follow these easy instructions to affirm that you have finished the simple reading:
Log in to Blue Access for Producers Click Here . Always log in as a subproducer using your own 9-digit BCBSIL-issued producer number and password, not the 9-digit BCBSIL producer number of the agency. Affirmation must be made at the subproducer level.
Click “Producer Services.”
Click “SEP Training Affirmation.”
Finally, click on the green “Submit” button.
Please print and keep a copy of the “SUCCESS” confirmation for your records.
How to Advise Your Individual Plan Customers
What to advise your clients ….? Look no further than the recently posted CEO Corner, where EBRM’s Jeff Kubik shares four recommendations to brokers on how to effectively market and service their Individual Health Insurance clients.
Actual Impact of
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)
PPACA AND CHILD ONLY POLICIES
The
impact of PPACA is being felt by businesses large and small as
the new regulations have left your clients with fewer health
insurance choices and significantly higher health insurance rates.
The most current example of how PPACA is influencing health
insurance coverage is the
loss of affordable child only policies in the state of Illinois.
Health
insurance carriers have been advised the PPACA Law requires that
any insurance company which offers affordable stand alone children’s
health care polices will be required to issue these policies
regardless of the
child’s health.
This is the equivalent of the Federal Government requiring auto
insures to insure new drivers retroactively after they crash their
car.
Every
major health insurance carrier in the state is withdrawing their
Child Only policies from the market. Any carrier that remains or
re-enters the Child Only market will do so with a substantially
more costly product.
In
essence, PPACA has destroyed this affordable product for
families to cover their children.
It is
important that your clients be informed of the true consequences of
this ill-conceived legislation.