Ritter Insurance Marketing Selected as an FMO for University of Maryland Health Advantage's Medicare Advantage Plan Launch

HARRISBURG, PA--(Marketwired - September 10, 2015) - Ritter Insurance Marketing ("Ritter") is pleased to announce that they have signed a Field Marketing Organization ("FMO") agreement with University of Maryland Health Advantage ("UMHA"), formerly Riverside Health, Inc., for their Medicare Advantage ("MA") plans. Ritter will help UMHA launch their MA plans, which are being released for the 2016 Annual Election Period ("AEP") starting October 15, 2015.

"University of Maryland Medical System's reputation as national leader in the health-care industry is well established," Craig Ritter, President and Owner of Ritter, remarked. "We are ecstatic to have been selected as an FMO by their subsidiary, University of Maryland Health Advantage, and we look forward to a long and successful partnership with them."

With UMHA's MA plans, insurance agents working with Ritter will now have access to exciting, new MA plans in 13 Maryland counties. Additionally, Medicare beneficiaries in Maryland will now have access to new options to meet their needs.

To sell these new MA plans, agents will have to be appointed and certified through UMHA and licensed in the state of Maryland. Details on UMHA's appointment and certification processes should be coming in the next few weeks. More information on UMHA's MA plans will be available October 1, 2015.

"It's amazing to be able to offer our agents opportunities to continue expanding their business in Maryland," Ritter said. "We're very passionate about providing our agents the highest-quality services and support, and offering these new products will enable us to continue meeting that end."

Over the past eight years, Ritter has done business with numerous "new-to-brokerage" Medicare Advantage carriers and sponsors, including Independence Blue Cross, Excellus BCBS, Health Partners Plans, Piedmont WellStar, and Geisinger Health Plans. In addition to supplying their agents with a variety of competitive products to choose from, Ritter offers their agents access to free Customer Relationship Management and customized quoting tools.

Ritter Insurance Marketing, based in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, is a national Field Marketing Organization for Senior Insurance Products. With more than 250,000 Medicare policies in force, six offices, and 110 employees, Ritter is a national industry leader in the external marketing and distribution of Medicare Advantage, Medicare Supplement and Medicare Part D plans.