Word & Brown Introduces Texas Health Insurance Brokers Tools for Medicare Business [Professional Services Close – Up]

Word & Brown announced a full suite of services expressly designed to assist Texas-based brokers expand their Medicare portfolio, whether or not they have ever sold Medicare before.

"As America ages and Medicare Advantage plans grow in popularity, the Medicare market provides tremendous business potential for Texas' brokers," said Gregg Ratkovic, SVP of the Word & Brown Individual Division, which offers Joppel, a CMS-approved Medicare quoting engine that brokers can install right on their own website. "Starting in October Texas' more than 3 million Medicare-eligible individuals will be making their annual healthcare selections. Now is the time for insurance brokers to make sure they are ready to be part of this expanding marketplace opportunity."

According to a release, Word & Brown offers brokers nationwide a variety of high-tech products that support each broker's sales goals. Now the company is bringing to Texas its nationally known "high-touch" services that make it easier for brokers to sell more Medicare business.

Through participation in "The Producers Club," Texas brokers can sell and service Medicare clients with the full support of Word & Brown's programs and products. Here brokers have access to top- carrier contracts, lead generation programs, customer relationship management technologies, and access to the Joppel quoting engine. Word & Brown will also help participating brokers establish their own Medicare and IFP website and will provide overall support and training in how to best penetrate this growing market.

"Brokers can earn significant revenue and successfully tap into a whole new marketplace by utilizing our sales system and the tools that we provide," said Ratkovic. "Brokers participating in this program receive full agent commission and advanced commissions of up to nine months with top commission and advances paid weekly."

Because every broker's goals, strategies and production levels differ, Word & Brown noted that it also offers Texas brokers two other sales programs to support their success.

The company's "Client Referral Program" allows brokers to simply refer leads to Word & Brown and then earn first-year and renewal commissions for each senior who enrolls. This program is ideal for brokers who don't want to actively participate in the Medicare market but who recognize the market potential and who don't want to fully default Medicare business to someone else with no financial reward.

Alternatively, brokers can choose to subscribe to Word & Brown's "Producer Tools" and, through a low monthly fee, have access to such Word & Brown products and services as multi-carrier Medicare and IFP quoting, lead-generation programs and customer relationship management tools.

The Word & Brown General Agency is part of the Word & Brown Companies, which provides services through more than 50,000 brokers to nearly 60,000 employers with more than 6 million eligible employees.

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