Broker Basics

How to Read a Summary of Benefits and Coverage (SBC)

How to Read a Summary of Benefits and Coverage (SBC):...

Your client’s Summary of Benefits and Coverage (SBC) is an important document designed to provide vital information about their health insurance. Unfortunately, it is also one of the least-read documents...

What Does a General Agency Do? Why New Brokers Need One

What Does a General Agency Do? Why New Brokers Need...

As we discussed in another blog this month, there’s some confusion – both in and outside of our industry – about the roles of an insurance agent, broker, and general...

Independent health insurance broker reviewing renewal reports and considering a general agency partnership

7 Signs It’s Time to Add a General Agency to...

Does the thought of peak season create anxiety for you? It does for some brokers. But help is available when you partner with a General Agency. Think you can handle...

Quoting Group Health Insurance on Your Own vs. Quoting With a General Agent

Quoting Group Health Insurance on Your Own vs. Quoting With...

Getting a quote on Group Health Insurance seems pretty straightforward. You get a census from your client listing employees to be insured. You plug that data into your preferred carrier’s...

Common Objections to Group Health Coverage

HMOs vs. PPOs vs. EPOs vs. HDHPs: The Health Plan...

Today’s health insurance marketplace can be confusing. That applies not only to consumers but to those who work in the health insurance industry as well as related fields. To help...

How a General Agency Can Help With a Denied Health...

Employer-sponsored health care costs are forecast to increase between 6.5% and 9% this year. For those getting coverage through the ACA Marketplaces, costs are even higher. KFF said in an...

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