Full List of Carrier Certification Links

A full list of the Carrier Certification links currently available can be found on our website. Click here to access the Carrier Certification Links.

Please remember that all certifications must be completed prior to 10/1 to sell during the upcoming 2016 AEP.

2016 Enrollment Kits

The majority of the 2016 enrollment kits are now available. Please log on to the corresponding broker portal to place your order. Please be advised that some carriers do not have provider directories or formularies available for order at this time, however they are available to view online. Click here.

Double Your Income During AEP with GTL

Please join us for a webinar with GTL’s Advantage Plus products on 10/13 at 10am. Give your clients an advantage with GTL's Advantage Plus products and earn more commissions. Click here.

2016 UHC Medicare Product Trainings- Western PA

UHC/AARP will be hosting additional product training webexes for 2016 Western PA United HealthCare Medicare products. If you have not been able to attend any of our previous webexes, these trainings will review our Western PA Medicare products, and give you the opportunity to get any questions answered. Please click the “REGISTER” link below next to the date that you wish to attend. Click here.

Aetna Senior Supplemental Insurance

Aetna has a webinar on 10/1 at 9am regarding a “Consumer Referral Lead Program”. They have also made updates to their claims coding system and agent website. Please click here to view the bulletin. Click here.

Medico New Webinars Geared Toward AEP

Medico is offering several new webinars to gear you up for AEP. Click here to view the full list. Click here.

Highmark Medicare Annual Notice of Change Letters (ANOC)

Highmark beneficiaries will be receiving their annual notice of change letters. Click here to view examples of what your client will be receiving. Please be advised that you can only discuss the ANOC prior to Oct. 1st if speaking to a current Highmark Medicare Advantage member who has received their ANOC. You cannot mail or hand out 2016 documents/enrollment kits prior to Oct. 1st. Click here.

New WellCare Producer Site

Many of you already know that we have released our new WellCare.com site this last Saturday. We have enhanced certain features in means to ensure that our members, providers and partners have a better experience connecting with us electronically. Click here.

Med Supp Enhancements and Pennsylvania Rate Adjustments

Cigna announces new underwriting guidelines and rates. Click here to few the advertisement from Cigna. Click here.

Welcome UPMC! Now in-network for UnitedHealthcare; Expanding to 5 new counties in PA

Need a reason to sell UnitedHealthcare MedicFlapare Advantage (MA) plans this AEP? Click here.

2016 Benefit Information

Click here to reach out to a member of the Senior Care Products department for access to benefit information.

CMS announces Part D Enhanced Medication Therapy Management Model

Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) announced a model to test strategies to improve medication use among Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in Part D. Click here.

CMS awards $110 million in Affordable Care Act funding to continue improvements in patient safety

Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) awarded $110 million in Affordable Care Act funding to 17 national, regional, or state hospital associations and health system organizations to continue efforts in reducing preventable hospital-acquired conditions and readmissions. Click here.

Helping You Help Your Employees with Medicare Enrollment

Do you have employees or retirees who are eligible to enroll in Medicare? Many people are still working when they’re first eligible for Medicare, and they need to decide if they should get Medicare Part B coverage. Click here.

Medicare Advantage premiums remain stable; enrollment at all-time high

Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that Medicare Advantage premiums will remain stable and more enrollees will have access to higher quality plans while, for a sixth straight year, enrollment is projected to increase to a new all-time high. Click here.

Lead Mailer AEP Special Rate

Lead Mailers for Medicare Supplements. Offer good until 10/31/15. Click here.

Capital Blue Cross has opened up its Medicare Advantage plans to its brokers!

You must be contracted with a Preferred Agency to sell this product. Contract with URL today. Please be advised this is a separate contract from the Individual and Medicare Supplement contract. ONLY WE HAVE ALL 3! Individual, Group, and Medicare. Click here to get contracted.

Please remember that all certifications must be completed prior to 10/1 to sell during the upcoming 2016 AEP.

URL has moved!

Look for us at our new address: 500 Nationwide Drive, Harrisburg, PA 17110. Click here.

Coming Soon

Keep a look out for information about our new website and an introduction to URL's new employees.

Medicare Connections News Archives

View previous editions of the 2016 Medicare Connections News. Click here.