Medicare Website

[DonP]

my business is literally named "Florida Medicare Broker".

I didn’t say you can’t do it . But it’s not compliant . Not different than when i take a stack of fe and knock them and write 25 medicare off them . No big deal .

 

[axeman462]

I didn’t say you can’t do it . But it’s not compliant . Not different than when i take a stack of fe and knock them and write 25 medicare off them . No big deal .

I ran it through the compliance department of two different FMOs and the DOI itself.
All three said it is OK.

 

[Special Agent]

I expect the rookie agents to be the compliance police, not you veterans… what the hell is going on guys? Lol

You know, you can’t talk to your parents or your spouse about med advantage, without getting a scope first! Rules are rules!

I didn’t say you can’t do it . But it’s not compliant . Not different than when i take a stack of fe and knock them and write 25 medicare off them . No big deal .

non compliant would be if you used something like Official Medicare Agency etc.I actually called the medicare marketing compliance department in atlanta once back in 2005 and got their blessing to use the name medicare plan finder.org for my website.had a programmer develop my website with searchable medicare.gov data.this was before ehealth ,selectquote etc were in the medicare biz.before that i was buying health insurance leads leads from a company that eventually became or were bought out from ehealth or one of those big centers.they would sell the the over age 65 leads dirt cheap because major med health agents didn't want them and i remember talking with the account rep asking him why don't you market for medicare leads?i told him this market is about to explode-he had no clue.

Wellcare was new in my market back then and didn't have much of a digital footprint so i could buy the keywords on google ads for " wellcare" or " wellcare medicare" dirt cheap to drive traffic to my website.Also had some luck with "who mana" and " humanity" lol

 

[KellyAH]

https://medicare.com/

I'm not a lawyer or compliance officer but if they can do it...

When I worked for eHealth for a year I stopped the person training my group about just that thing. How is "medicare.com" not breaking that rule? She told me that the lawyers had it under control.

 

[MedicareWAA]

When I worked for eHealth for a year I stopped the person training my group about just that thing. How is "medicare.com" not breaking that rule? She told me that the lawyers had it under control.

 

[Chazm]

my business is literally named "Florida Medicare Broker".

They won’t let you create that today. I finally got LLC two years ago. I tried to make Mulherin Senior Advisors. It was shot down unless I had the word “insurance” in it. I could create the name, but the department of insurance wouldn’t allow it.

I know that has nothing to do with the word Medicare. I didn’t try that.

 

[somarco]

How is "medicare.com" not breaking that rule? She told me that the lawyers had it under control.

It's called a campaign contribution . . .

Medicare dot com was originally owned by a group out of Birmingham that registered the domain years ago. They set up a website to generate leads and planned on selling "territorial rights" to agents interested in getting leads resulting from the website.

They pushed heavily to get me in the deal but I resisted. They eventually sold the domain to e hlth and the rest is history.

 

[bluediamond]

If it was FS that owned it you should have invested. When he sold made quite a bundle. Moved to Florida for awhile and now I see back in Birmingham.

 

[somarco]

@bluediamond I don't recall the man's name and lost track of him after I decided not to buy into his lead gen operation. I do recall reading about the domain sale generating a large payoff. Good for him.

 

[mickeyma]

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Somarco: Georgia MEDICARE plans. com !!!!!