Overview
Grow your expertise as well as the versatility and value you bring to your organization by earning your Fellow, Health Insurance Advanced Studies designation. You’ll gain a broader understanding of how such insurance products as disability, long-term care, dental coverage, and Medicare work together to make our entire health care system stronger.
To earn your FHIAS®, complete two required courses:
- Health Insurance Advanced Studies, Part A*
- Health Insurance Advanced Studies, Part B
Then, select one of the following electives:
- Marketing Medicare Advantage and Part D Prescription Drug Plans:Understanding Medicare Basics, Plan Options, and Marketing and Enrollment Requirements
- Medicare Primer
- An Introdiction to Wellness Programs
- Wellness,Part Two: Combating Chronic Diseases through Workplace Wellness Programs
Details of electives are available on request.Contact us at Training@iiea.co.ke
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this designation, you’ll gain a broader understanding of how such insurance products as disability, long-term care, dental coverage, and Medicare work together to make our entire health care system stronger.
Course Outline
- 1.1: Explore the impact of court decisions on healthcare reform, including the Supreme Court
- 1.2: Assess the different ways Americans obtain their health insurance coverage
- 1.3: Discover how and why some health insurance providers leverage alternate organizational structures
- 1.4: Gain a deeper understanding of what health insurance exchanges are and how they operate in a post-reform environment
- 1.5: Explore the concepts behind accountable care organizations (ACOs) and their role in bending the cost curve
- 1.6: Analyze how Medicare Part D enables significant portions of the senior population to obtain prescription drug coverage
- 1.7: See how the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has impacted Medicare Part D's out-of-pocket costs
- 1.8: Acquire new planning tools for fraud detection and deterrence
- 1.9: Take a closer look at the interplay of the ACA and recent court decisions that had an impact on Medicaid expansion
- 2.1: Enrich your understanding of the exchanges and products offered on the exchanges
- 2.2: Gain a solid understanding of the concepts behind disability insurance (DI)
- 2.3: Go high and low: explore the role of DI in replacing income for both high and low wage earners
- 2.4: Discover how DI, health insurance, and long-term care insurance (LTCI) work together to provide a triangle of financial protection
- 2.5: Why the need for LTCI remains a key concern for Americans in a post-reform world
- 2.6: Key concepts of LTCI insurance; its role in financing needed services
- 2.7: Make the dental-health connection: Discover why research shows people with dental insurance are more likely to have better overall physical health
- 2.8: Master the concepts underpinning various dental benefit plans in the marketplace
- 2.9: Sort out why DI, LTCI, and dental benefits have been exempted from many reform requirements
