“Long-Term Care Insurers May Have to Keep Their Policies: Regulators”

“Long-Term Care Insurers May Have to Keep Their Policies: Regulators,” by Allison Bell, ThinkAdvisor   Quote: “State insurance regulators are trying to develop rules that insurers could use to transfer blocks of business to other entities with finality, without worries about whether responsibility for the claims will come back to haunt them. Many issuers of long-term care insurance (LTCI) would love to transfer responsibility for blocks of LTCI business to another entity.” LTC Comment, Stephen A. Moses, President, Center for Long-Term Care Reform: Some relationships are hard to break.             Subscribe to GoldenCare News  
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Categories: Clippings and Industry News.

You’re Invited! | Aetna and GTL Short-Term Care Plans

Register now to reserve your space! Tues, Nov 9, 2021 11:00 AM  to  11:30 AM CST     Questions or help registering? Call the GoldenCare Marketing Team at 800-842-7799! Don’t forget to subscribe to our News Digest for all the latest announcements from the Top Carriers! Check out GoldenCare News  
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Categories: Aetna, GoldenCare News, Guarantee Trust Life, and Industry News.

Our Fourth Winner Announced – GoldenCare’s Contact Card Drawing!

Download our GoldenCare Contact Card to quickly access our team for personal service and for access to your favorite tools at your fingertips from your phone or device! DOWNLOAD NOW! Plus We’re giving away TEN $100 Amazon.com Gift Cards! Enter to win our drawing right on the contact card!   Questions? Call our GoldenCare Marketing Team at 800-842-7799! #goldencareagent
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Categories: GoldenCare News and Industry News.

WA long-term care application processing update

WA long-term care application processing update We would like to share an important application processing update now that the state of Washington (WA) Nov. 1st deadline has passed for individual coverage to be in place for the WA Cares Fund exemption. As you know, the volume of applications from WA put a significant strain on carriers and vendors who support this business across the industry. While OneAmerica® Underwriters and Case Managers are focused on processing as much business as possible before year-end, our processing times remain higher than normal. Unfortunately, our ability to provide and respond to status requests is
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Categories: Industry News, Linked Benefit/Hybrids, and OneAmerica.

End of Year Pay Information

The holidays will be here before you know it, please make sure you have these important dates marked in your calendar. Mutual of Omaha and its affiliates (United of Omaha and United World) will be closed on the following days: Thanksgiving: Thursday, November 25, 2021 and Friday, November 26, 2021 Christmas: Friday, December 24, 2021 New Year’s: Friday, December 31, 2021 The past pay cutoff in 2021 for Life and Health is Thursday, December 31. This is the last pay cycle to be paid in 2021. Life Cutoff Dates Holiday Date Holiday Observed Cutoff – New Issues and Renewals Check
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Categories: Critical Illness, Disability Income Insurance, Industry News, Life Insurance, Long-Term Care, Medicare Supp./Adv., and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

Kickoff Long-Term Care Insurance Awareness Month

There’s no better time than Long-Term Care Insurance Awareness Month to make sure your clients understand the importance of planning for their long-term care needs. So make sure you take advantage of these game changing tools: Our Starting the Conversation Flyer provides information about how to join our new Facebook group and tools to use with clients when talking about long-term care. Join our claims leadership team on Thursday, November 18th at 11:30 a.m. CST to learn valuable claims information. Register Now The Protecting the Things that matter Most consumer video highlights the need for LTCi. Kickoff Long-Term Care Insurance
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Categories: Industry News, Long-Term Care, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

Condition-Related Marketing: COVID-19

Condition-Related Marketing: COVID-19 Mutual of Omaha continues to learn more about the risks of COVID-19 and how to best field underwrite for the condition. However, our new condition-related marketing flyer lists key tips to help you gather the most important information about your LTCi applicants. Download it now!   Condition-Related Marketing: COVID-19   #goldencareagent #mutualofomaha
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Categories: Industry News, Long-Term Care, and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

Advertising Compliance Requirements

Mutual of Omaha has long been committed to ensuring that all advertising materials used to promote our company and our products meet certain criteria as required by government regulations, the NAIC, and our Home Office. Producers are required to obtain permission from the company before advertising on its behalf. Because of our commitment to compliance, we have developed and rely on our Advertising Review system to maintain a system of control over the content, form, and method of distribution of all advertisements of our products and services. If you are looking for advertising materials, please check Forms & Materials on
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Categories: Industry News and Mutual of Omaha (& Affiliates).

Thrivent LTC: Session timeouts while using e-App?

Experiencing session timeouts in the Thrivent e-App? iPipeline has determined this happens most often when users first access FormsPipe and then subsequently launches the e-App on iGO. If the user leaves FormsPipe open in the background, it continues to use the FormsPipe instance for the session timeout and not iGO. To prevent unexpected session timeouts, users should close FormsPipe so the session no longer times out in the background. iPipeline is working on a more permanent fix to the issue, and has this scheduled for their next product Sprint.       #goldencareagent #thrivent #ltc
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Categories: Industry News, Long-Term Care, and Thrivent.

Enhanced LTCi Prescreening Process

New prescreening team reduces turnaround times To improve the response time on underwriting prequalification requests, as well as to help expediate the cycle time for new business, Thrivent LTCi prequalification requests will now be processed by emailing LTCiPreQual@Thrivent.com. With our previous process, we strived for a 24-hour response time, but that should be greatly improved with our new process. We have successfully tested this approach in a pilot with a few select BGAs and have experienced greatly improved turnaround times. This experienced prescreening team is helping alleviate some of the burden from our underwriters at LTCG, helping to further reduce
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Categories: Industry News, Long-Term Care, and Thrivent.