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Medicare & Medicaid Changes 2026: What Brokers Need to Know | TLD CRM

The landscape is shifting fast. Here’s your no-fluff breakdown heading into Medicarians 2026. If your Medicare insurance agency is heading to Medicarians in Las Vegas this week, you already know what every hallway conversation is going to center on: what the heck is happening to Medicare and Medicaid, and what does it mean for my […]

SIP 603 Blocked Calls: What Insurance Agencies Must Know

SIP 603 Blocked Calls: What Health Insurance Call Centers Need to Know About the FCC’s New 603+ Standard Published: March 2026 Your agents are dialing. The calls aren’t connecting. And nobody knows why. Sound familiar? If your team is running outbound call campaigns, there’s a good chance SIP 603 blocked calls are quietly eating into […]

CMS Electronic Claims Rule: What Agencies Must Know

CMS Electronic Claims Rule: What Health Insurance Agencies Must Know Published: March 2026 The CMS electronic claims rule is now final — and it’s one of the biggest administrative changes to hit the health insurance industry in decades. On March 20, 2026, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) officially mandated the phase-out of […]

Reducing Data Errors with Structured Insurance Workflows

Reducing Data Errors with Structured Workflows Data forms the foundation of every insurance agency’s operation. Leads, client records, enrollments, compliance documentation, and agent activity all depend on accurate, consistent information. When data becomes incomplete or incorrect, the impact is immediate. Productivity slows, reporting loses reliability, and teams lose confidence in the systems they rely on. […]

Building a Modern Insurance Agency With Flexible Technology

Building a Modern Insurance Agency With Technology That Fits the Way You Work Modern insurance agencies are under constant pressure to do more with less. More leads, more compliance requirements, more channels, and higher expectations from consumers, all while managing teams that work in different ways and at different speeds. In this environment, technology is […]

Why an Integrated Dialer Outperforms Standalone Call Tools

An insurance agency’s communication workflow is only as strong as the systems that support it. When agents bounce between tools just to make calls, log activity, or update client information, efficiency drops and errors rise. This is where an integrated dialer, like TLDialer within the TLD CRM ecosystem, stands apart. Built directly into the CRM […]

FCC TCPA STOP Rule Update 2025

FCC TCPA STOP Rule Update 2025: What Businesses Need to Know We’ve all gotten those unwanted marketing texts — and the one word we use to make them stop is “STOP.” Under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), that simple command has been a core consumer right for years. Now, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) […]

Medicare AEP Sales Strategies: Why CRMs Need TLD

AEP 2025: Why Your CRM Alone Won’t Win the Season — And How TLD Gives You the Edge Every October through December, Medicare’s Annual Enrollment Period (AEP) becomes the busiest time of the year for insurance professionals. It’s often called “the Super Bowl of our industry” for good reason: the opportunities are massive, the competition […]

October 2025 Restricted Call Dates

October 2025 Restricted Call Dates Staying compliant with calling regulations is key to protecting your business and maintaining customer trust. Below are the restricted call dates for October 2025 that may affect your outreach. October Restricted Call Dates October 13, 2025 – Columbus Day Alabama (also Fraternal Day and American Indian Heritage Day) Nebraska* Pennsylvania […]

Why Updating Availability Pings Matters

An availability ping update is critical whenever a vendor switches between ingroup routing and state routing. Without this adjustment, the system checks the wrong filter, making vendors appear unavailable, skewing performance stats, and disrupting call flow across the platform. Two Types of Routing Ingroup routingUses parameters to confirm availability within a defined call group. State […]