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with EASE and other Online Tools from Assurant Health
EASE and other online tools are designed to make your business more productive and profitable. Look at what we have to offer:
EASE — Assurant Health’s agent new business system
With EASE, you’ll get a secure, powerful, online business system that makes selling health insurance easy and fast. • Get instant, accurate individual medical quotes. • Complete the fewest number of health history questions in the industry with Express Underwriting. • Save time and submit business online — no paper application required! • Check underwriting status on all your Assurant Health business (individual, group, short term) online anytime, day or night.
Online Tools
will help you grow your sales and make it easier to do business . . . that’s Advantage Agent!
Express Underwriting — Fastest process in the industry!
Express Underwriting simplifies the sales process, subtracting days off your wait for a response from Underwriting. In many cases, you’ll go from app to issue in 48 hours or less! • Simplified process with as few as 17 health questions. • Improved placement with redesigned questions. More of your clients (up to 75%) can get their business processed without having to speak to an underwriter.
• Simplified health verification process for your clients There’s a simplified and improved link where your clients can easily verify their health information. Here’s how it works: — The email you send to your clients at the end of the submission process includes everything they need, including the link to www.verifyhealth.com where your clients will attest to the information they provided. — Applicants fill in a provided verification code, the primary insured’s last name and ZIP code, and they’re ready to complete the verification process. You can also find the verification code in EASE Underwriting Status and Find Saved Quote/Client.
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More EASE Improvements — More time, More Choices
• Requote after submission — Requoting is simplified if your clients want to make a change (e.g., benefit changes, dependent removal, etc.). — After submission, you can make changes without keying in all the information again. Just go to www.assuranthealthsales.com and click on Find Saved Quote/Client. You’ll be able to make all your changes on the Quote Summary screen. — Then simply print the new Quote Summary and fax it in.
My Sales links, My Web Page — Sit back and generate online sales!
“My Sales links” is a tool you can use to create a personal sales link just for you. • Establish a sales link on association, employer and civic organization Web sites and link potential clients to a secure Web site that provides product information, generates instant quotes, and allows them to apply online. • The Web site displays your agency information and you get credit for your sales! “My Web Page” is a free, professionally designed Web page just for you. Even if you’re not at all computer-savvy, it’s easy and it’s fast. With My Web Page, in only a few minutes you’ll have your own Web page that gives you BIG payoffs: • Sell online at no cost to you! • Instant referrals when you send potential customers to your own, unique site. • Great promotional tool to advertise and publicize your business. • Maintenance free! We’ll take care of technical and product updates.
Note: You will be credited for all sales if you are licensed and appointed to do business in the applicant’s state of residence. Clients cannot apply for coverage online in WV.
“Help Me Choose”* • When clients use your agent sales link or the link on your Web page to apply online, they can click on “Help Me Choose,” a new selection wizard, if they’re undecided about which plan is the best for them. • Clients answer a few simple questions and, based on their responses, the wizard displays the most appropriate plans. • It’s the next best thing to having you, the agent, right there to help them make the right plan selection, and YES! — you still get credit for the sale.
* “Help Me Choose” is available in CA, KS, KY, NC and NH only with effective dates on or after 2/1/2007. It’s available in all other IM states with immediate effective dates, except CT, MN, NV, UT or WV, where “Help Me Choose” is not available at this time.
now more product choices All the plan choices and options available to you on EASE are now available to your customers using these tools! Firefox In addition to Internet Explorer, you and your clients can now use all the online agent sales tools for the IM Consumer Site — My Web Page, My Sales links and the Express Underwriting Health Verification Process — with the Firefox web browser.
You’ll find all our online tools at the one place for all your business needs: www.assuranthealthsales.com training is available to get you started. Contact your sales representative today!
For agent use only. Assurant Health is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by Time Insurance Company, John Alden Life Insurance Company and Union Security Insurance Company. J-49497 (12/2006) Internet only.