Live Chat and New Producer Toolbox Dashboards

Anthem’s new Producer Toolbox dashboards give you a window to your business and quick, easy access to the tools and information you use most often:

• Frequent Tasks: Use a button to Start a New Quote, Start an Application, or View All Clients.
• Recent Activity: Check the status of your recent quotes and applications, and upcoming renewals.
• Commissions: View your last 3 months of commissions and access a full report.
• Billing Summary: See the status of your clients’ invoices.
• Last Viewed Clients: Return to clients you’ve recently viewed.
• Popular Documents: Access all resources and forms quickly and generate reports here.
  Coming soon: Pin your favorite documents and reports.

Click here to learn more.

Anthem Joins XPRIZE to Foster COVID Testing Innovation

The Anthem Foundation and Anthem, Inc., are Founding Anchor Partners of the $5 million XPRIZE Rapid COVID Testing competition.

XPRIZE, OpenCovidScreen, and a coalition of partners are calling on the global community to develop frequent, affordable, and easy-to-use screening tests with fast results to catch COVID-19 occurrences before they become outbreaks. Affordable testing and rapid results are designed to enhance access to testing and support better, data-driven contact tracing and isolating strategies.

Click here to learn more.

New EmployerAccess Mobile App Now Available

Anthem’s new EmployerAccess mobile app has added features to make managing group plans easier. If you’re designated as the group administrator for your clients, you will be able to manage your groups from anywhere. You can make payments, find member benefit information, and view/share ID cards. The virtual Employer Assistant will help you navigate the app and find the information you need, including the latest Anthem news and notifications.

Click here to learn more.

Sell more, earn more!

New Southern Ohio Chamber Alliance Benefit Plan and ACA groups sold with effective dates between August 1, 2020, and December 31, 2020, are eligible. Earn even more if you sell a line of specialty along with the medical.

SOCA Benefit Plan/ACA New Business Bonus

Sell a line of Specialty along with the medical and earn even more!

10 percent multiplier if 25 percent of new groups include a line of specialty

20 percent multiplier if 40 percent of new groups include a line of specialty

Here are the program details:

• Group needs to still be active with Anthem as of February 1, 2021
• Agent of record changes do not qualify for the bonus payout Existing Anthem clients that transfer to the SOCA Benefit Plan or an ACA plan are not eligible for the bonus program
• New contracts on existing groups are not eligible for the bonus program
• Payout will be a one-time payment targeted for March/April 2021
• Bonuses will be paid based on current Anthem commission and licensing contracts
• Incentive payments will be disclosed and reported where required by applicable law
• Anthem reserves the right to adjust future bonus amounts if groups are termed retroactively after the period’s bonus program calculations and payments have been made
• Bonus payments are based on enrolled contracts as of the original effective month.

As a response to the challenges presented by COVID-19, Anthem will provide premium-equivalent credits the MEWA benefit plan sponsor groups based on April 2020 medical invoices. If groups also have dental Fully Insured coverage with Anthem, they will receive a premium credit on that as well.

The groups will either see the credit on their August 2020 invoice (issued in July 2020) or receive a check for:

• 10% of the April premium-equivalent for medical plans
• 50% of the April premium bill for dental plans (if applicable)

Anthem is working to avoid negative impact to broker commissions.

MEWA sponsors issuing the credits include:

• Southern Ohio Chamber Alliance (SOCA) Benefit Plan
• Missouri Chamber Benefit Plan
• Georgia Chamber SMART Plans and Georgia FARM Plans
• ChamberAdvantage (Kentucky)
• ChamberCare Health Alliance (Indiana)

You may have recently received a series of messages from MEWA.io, a digital MEWA management system, highlighting Anthem’s SOCA BP Medicare and Cobra administration. MEWA.io will help to simplify the administration processes and maintain compliance to ERISA.

This system will manage the Medicare Small Employer Exception process with CMS for groups under 20 with members turning 65 years old. It will also streamline confirming required information with the employer on a recently termed employee prior to sending a COBRA or state continuation notice. These were both functions that were previously happening behind the scenes.

With MEWA.io, groups are getting a new, more efficient experience! Below is a link to a quick video from Anthem, which gives you an inside look into the new system. Cornerstone has highlighted some of the new features below.

MEWA.io will be launching June 8, 2020, for Anthem SOCA BP groups.

MEWA.io is designed to simplify administration, maintain compliance with ERISA, and keep plan costs down—all at no cost to the group.

Coordination of Coverage

• When a plan participant terms coverage, an email is generated to the employer to verify the information on file, which can be verified with single click.
• If changes need to be made, they can click on a link and make the changes right there if needed. In the case of multiple term records for a month, they can do this all at once. Once complete, MEWA.io will send continuation information to plan participant.

Medicare Eligible Employees

• By default, Medicare is secondary.
• If your group is fewer than 20, your group can use the exception request.
• io will notify employers via email when a member becomes eligible.
• Employers complete the forms and sign digitally. Plan administrators will confirm, countersign, and submit to CMS.

Document Center

• Anytime an employer signs a form using MEWA.io, and the document will be stored in document center.
• Other documents to be stored will include the MEWA agreement, MEWA information, SPD, etc.

Click here to access the walk through: https://mewa.io/soca/employer-walkthrough-email/#video

Contact your Cornerstone representative with any questions.

We appreciate your continued business through Cornerstone and wanted to remind you that any group that has been written into the Anthem Chamber Advantage product is currently experiencing an open enrollment. The open enrollment’s last day to enroll is June 30, 2020. The effective date for any enrollment during this time will be June 1, 2020. Keep in mind, that the renewal date has not changed for any groups, as they will still be renewing in June 2021.

If you have any questions please contact your Cornerstone Broker Advisor.