HealthCare.gov managers may have a shot at holding on to many ofthe 79,000 agents and brokers who signed up to sell its productsthis year.
Some producers interviewed said they will let theirregistrations lapse, but a comparable number said they willre-register.
The registration and re-registration deadline for producers whowant to sell qualified health plans (QHPs) from thestate public exchanges run by the U.S. Department of Health andHuman Services (HHS) is Sept. 30 -- Tuesday. Producers who fail toregister, or re-register, may at least temporarily lose the abilityto sell 2014 major medical coverage, and they may be shut out ofthe HHS exchange open enrollment period until they go through theregistration process. It appears that agents who fail to registerfor the Small Business Health Options Program by Nov. 15 run therisk of getting shut out entirely.
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Allison Bell
Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.
