The top sponsor is a field marketing organization.
The National Association of Health
Underwriters (NAHU) has moved its 90th annual meeting online, due to COVID-19,
and focused the meeting agenda mainly on Medicare plans and group health plan
administration, due to ongoing uncertainty in the major medical insurance
market.
The Washington-based group represents about
100,000 health insurance agents, benefits consultants, and other health
coverage professionals, and it has attracted about 1,000 members to the annual
meeting, which started Sunday and is set to last until tomorrow.
But, as in most recent years, companies other
than health insurers dominated the meeting sponsor list.
The top-level sponsor is AGA Inc., a field
marketing organization.
The insurers on the meeting sponsor list are
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company and Cigna Corp.
The other sponsors are marketing organizations
and services providers, such as BenefitMall, HealthEquity and Ritter Insurance
Marketing.
NAHU is running “Knowledge Channel” breakout
session tracks for Medicare and employer group health plan cost containment,
but no separate session on individual major medical insurance.
The closest thing NAHU has to a session on
individual major medical insurance this year is a session, presented by
Michelle Berndt of OneShare Health, on health care cost sharing ministries.
Janet Trautwein, NAHU’s executive vice
president and chief executive officer, gave an update on the top health finance
topic of the times: politics and COVID-19.
NAHU also offered a virtual expo, in place of
an exhibition hall, featuring exhibitors such as Alan Katz’s new company,
NextAgency Inc., an agency management software company.
NAHU President Patricia Griffey and other NAHU
leaders promoted NAHU’s Just Ask One membership campaign. This year’s campaign,
which calls on current members to ask one non-member to consider joining, is
taking place today.
NAHU leaders note that they play an important
role in representing health insurance professionals in key policy discussions
in Washington, such as the fight to protect employers’ group health coverage
cost income tax exclusion.
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