Jesse Smedley is a Principal of Oakbridge Insurance and the founder of iHealthBrokers. He founded iHealthBrokers in 2007, and Oakbridge acquired iHealthBrokers in 2025. He has spent nearly two decades teaching people how to save money on their health insurance and navigate Medicare, and he is the author of Medicare A to Z: Your Roadmap to Medicare.
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| We’ve expanded our service area!It’s official! We’re excited to announce that we’ve expanded our Medicare Advantage service area into San Diego County and portions of Sacramento and Ventura counties! Now our service area is even larger. And so is the Medicare market, so you can dig in to more sales.
To take advantage of this opportunity, the first step is getting certified to sell Blue Shield’s Medicare Advantage products. Why certify with Blue Shield for 2013?
Get your AHIP certification Blue Shield’s 2013 MA-PD and PDP product-specific training site will be live soon. We’ll send you a reminder as soon as it is ready so that you can get started. Once you get your AHIP certification and pass Blue Shield’s product-specific training, you’ll be ready to start selling. On behalf of our sales team, we look forward to working with you and heating up our mutual success together! Source: “Approaching 65: A Survey of Boomers Turning 65 Years Old,” Love, J., AARP Research & Strategic Analysis, December 2010. Plan performance Star Ratings are assessed each year and may change from one year to the next. Blue Shield of California is a health plan with a Medicare contract. |
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| Blue Shield of California is a not-for-profit health plan.Blue Shield of California is an independent member of the Blue Shield Association. | |
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