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Covered California Sales Seminar 2

October 25, 2014 By Kevin Knauss 1 Comment

Covered California held its second in a series of sales seminars for Certified Insurance Agents. The webinar was punctuated by technical glitches and an amateurish quality of the presenters. They did manage to address several questions that had less to do about sales and more about the CalHEERS on-going technical problems and new voter registration […]

Filed Under: Certified Agents, Covered California Tagged With: Agents, Counselors, Covered California, Enrollers, Sales Seminar

Covered California Report A Change function disabled

October 17, 2014 By Kevin Knauss Leave a Comment

Covered California disables the Report a Change function until November 4, 2014.

Covered California will be updating the enrollment software between October 13th and November 4th, 2014. This update disables the Report a Change function preventing consumers from adding a family member through either birth or adoption. Covered California has published escalation procedures for Certified Insurance Agents and Certified Enrollment Counselors to use when they need to […]

Filed Under: CEC, Certified Agents, Covered California Tagged With: Baby, Covered California, Error Code, Report a change

Covered California sends pre-termination letters to immigrants

October 17, 2014 By Kevin Knauss Leave a Comment

Covered California sends letters informing consumers their health plans will cancelled on October 31st.

From Covered California communication with Certified Insurance Agents and Certified Enrollment Counselors Pre-Termination Notices Will Be Sent Today To Fewer Than 11,000 People SACRAMENTO, Calif. Covered California announced Monday it has been able to clear the citizenship/lawful presence status of the vast majority of individuals who were sent notices seeking verification documents in September, meaning […]

Filed Under: Certified Agents, Covered California Tagged With: Covered California, Immigration, Termination

Covered California sales renewal presentation

October 11, 2014 By Kevin Knauss Leave a Comment

2015 renewal cycle for Covered California sales presentation.

Covered California will be hosting bi-monthly webinars for agents, enrollers and navigators on the 2015 renewal and open enrollment period. The first presentation was on the automatic enrollment for existing consumers and some of the technical issues that might occur. The webinar itself, Sales Partner Renewal Webinar October 8th 2014, was approximately 48 minutes long. […]

Filed Under: Certified Agents, Covered California Tagged With: Agents, Contra Costa, Covered California, Health Net, Health Plans, Renewal

Covered California agents to assist with voter registration

September 20, 2014 By Kevin Knauss 2 Comments

Covered California mandates agents must assist consumers with registering to vote.

The Covered California Board adopted regulations at their September 2014 board meeting that will mandate that Certified Enrollment Counselors and Certified Insurance Agents must assist consumers enrolling in health plans to register to vote through the Secretary of States voter registration web page. Download the full adopted regulations at the end of the post. (b) […]

Filed Under: Certified Agents, Covered California Tagged With: Voter Registration

Navigators to receive $190 per enrollment from Covered California

September 19, 2014 By Kevin Knauss 1 Comment

Navigators receive big money from Covered California.

Covered California has award $17.1 million dollars to 66 organizations to be known as Navigators to enroll 93,467 individuals from October 2014 to June 2015. The average cost per enrollment for the Navigator program is $190 per person with some Navigators receiving as much as $435 per enrollment. For each additional 100 enrollments above the […]

Filed Under: Covered California, Navigators Tagged With: Covered California, Navigators

Covered California MAGI Training

September 18, 2014 By Kevin Knauss 1 Comment

Covered California provided some very important training to insurance agents on determining ACA MAGI for clients…twelve months late. The information offered on household income for tax credits should have been offered months ago before we started the first open enrollment. While the maxim of “better late than never” is apropos, content was at times needlessly […]

Filed Under: Covered California, MAGI Tagged With: ACA, Covered California, Income, MAGI, Taxes

CEC webinar provides CIA training

September 13, 2014 By Kevin Knauss Leave a Comment

When it comes to keeping Certified Enrollment Counselors (CECs) informed about updates and changes, Covered California has been doing a great job. I only wish the communication was as good when it comes to keeping Certified Insurance Agents (CIAs) current with information. The September 10th Community Partner Webinar has lots of good information that is […]

Filed Under: CEC, Covered California Tagged With: CEC, Covered California, Health Plans, Hospitals

Covered California consumer renewal letters and notices

September 1, 2014 By Kevin Knauss Leave a Comment

Covered California to send numerous notices and letters to consumers in the summer and fall of 2014.

Covered California is ratcheting up the emails and letters to consumers on a variety of topics from immigration verification to renewing their health plans for 2015. Some of these letters for additional information, consent, or to manage verifications will ultimately be confusing to the consumer. In a Certified Insurance Agent webinar, Covered California went over […]

Filed Under: Certified Agents, Covered California Tagged With: Immigration, Income, Letters, Notices, Verification

Covered California updates income section

August 17, 2014 By Kevin Knauss 2 Comments

Covered California updates income section for partial year employment.

Covered California has updated the CalHEERS income section of the individual and family plan application to accommodate partial year employment. This was accomplished with the insertion of simple date fields. Now, instead of the annualized income from a job a client has left, the employment can just have a start and end date. Changes to […]

Filed Under: CalHEERS, Covered California Tagged With: CalHEERS, Covered California, Income, Report

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