HealthCare.gov managers may have a shot at holding on to many of the 79,000 agents and brokers who signed up to sell its products this year.
Some producers interviewed said they will let their registrations lapse, but a comparable number said they will re-register.
The registration and re-registration deadline for producers who want to sell qualified health plans (QHPs) from the state public exchanges run by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is Sept. 30 -- Tuesday. Producers who fail to register, or re-register, may at least temporarily lose the ability to sell 2014 major medical coverage, and they may be shut out of the HHS exchange open enrollment period until they go through the registration process. It appears that agents who fail to register for the Small Business Health Options Program by Nov. 15 run the risk 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.
