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HR person tasked with employee education and training initiatives to ensure the MA certification process would be user-friendly and practical. “My focus was to try to get rid of as much ‘government talk’ as possible, and most importantly, make it easy for people to read so they can understand how this complex system works,” says Parker. The MA certification course has three units of study. Part one highlights the ins and outs of Medicare A, B, C and D. Part two addresses general guidelines for brokers and agents. Part three was not revised. It is provided in partnership with a Medicare training network program to keep course participants updated on fraud, waste and abuse. “Federal regulations can take 10 or 11 lines to explain something which, in plain

English, would only be one or two,” Parker says. With this in mind, he removed complex language and specific references to federal regulation codes to make the content as simple to understand as possible while still incorporating the many updates and changes to Medicare that came through this year. The $100 MA certification course meets all CMS requirements and has received approval from national and regional carriers. Continuing education (CE) credits are included for all 50 states. But how does the course differ from other options, like AHIP’s Medicare training? “It includes not only the ‘what,’ but also the ‘why,’” Parker says. “And, it’s presented in a format that is easy to read and easy for a person to remember.”

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