Independent agents selling Medicare Advantage plans must re-certify with each insurance company they wish to represent this fall. Agents can take the Medicare test offered by AHIP and have that test applied to testing requirements for each insurance company. Each company will require tests specific to their plans as well.
The AHIP test will cost $150 this year. So far no company has come forward to say they would pay the fee for agents (as Humana did in 2008).
Agents who take a company’s Medicare test and do not pass, cannot take the AHIP test. If an agent begins testing with a company, the AHIP test, if taken, will not register.