Medicare Agent: What Is It? and How to Become One?
You can easily check if you’re “ready-to-sell” with each of your carriers in the Ritter Platform! Simply log in to the Platform and confirm you’re ready to go by following the instructions here. For example, if you take your certification exam in late June or July 2020, you are likely being certified to sell the 2021 product to eligible seniors during the 2021 annual enrollment period. We support agents in all of their efforts including recruitment, compliance programs, marketing strategy, agent training, and much more. This free PDF will help guide you through the many enrollment periods, penalties and Medicare's "alphabet soup" of plans. Medicare brokers frequently sell other types of insurance — home, life, auto, long-term care — which may be of medicare agent interest to you. Agents and brokers both compare different Medicare plans and combinations of plans to come up with the best options based on price and need. This type of agent can only sell policies from on...