5 Essential Tips for a Productive and Profitable Open Enrollment Season

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• Analyze your previous OEP and AEP
• Stay up to date on industry, carrier, and policy changes
• Create a sales and marketing strategy
• Get organized with an agency management system
• Automate Medicare Rx Data Collection

Open Enrollment (OEP) and Annual Election Period (AEP) are always the busiest and most important times for health insurance agencies. Between managing current clients, new prospects, and staying compliant, it can be a lot to take on. Having a strategy before OEP can set your agency up for success.

In this blog, we will discover five essential tips to help you make this enrollment season your most successful and profitable yet.

1. Analyze Your Previous OEP & AEP

Before diving into the new enrollment season, take time to look back and review your agency's previous performance. If you're using an agency management system (AMS), you can generate reports that provide insight into critical KPIs like:

• Lead conversion rates
• Top-performing policies and carriers
• Retention rates
• Communication success

2. Stay Up to Date On Industry, Carrier, & Policy Changes

Staying up to date on compliance rules is essential. Here are some resources for some of the most critical health insurance compliance regulations:

•  Scope of Appointment (SOA)
• ACA Consent to Contact
• ACA Attestation
• Phone Recording Requirements

Ensure your team is informed about any regulatory changes, key dates, and industry trends. This allows you to offer clients valuable guidance and the most relevant information, helping you build stronger trust and lasting relationships with your clients.

3. Create a Sales & Marketing Strategy

While servicing existing clients remains your top priority, every insurance agency must also maintain a steady flow of incoming leads. Common lead generation tactics health insurance agents use include:

• Blogging
• Lead forms on your insurance website
• Outbound calling
• Direct mail
• Social media

However, generating leads is only part of the process. You also need a system to capture, track, and nurture them through your sales pipeline. Having an agency management system (AMS) is essential for helping you stay organized while maximizing conversion opportunities.

A good AMS should include workflow automation for  routine tasks. Easy-to-automate tasks for insurance agents include:

• Speed-to-lead communication
• Lead nurturing and follow-ups
• Policy submission notifications
• Policy renewals

Using automation to send these critical messages frees up valuable time for your agency to focus on connecting with clients. When a new lead enters your system, automated sequences should be able to immediately send personalized welcome messages and schedule follow-up reminders, ensuring no prospect falls through the cracks.

With AMS+, an AgencyBloc solution, your agency gets an all-in-one, industry-specific platform that automates sales and service management, streamlines workflows, boosts efficiency, increases sales, and improves client retention.

4. Get Organized with an Agency Management System

Staying organized is the key to saving time during the OEP. An insurance-specific AMS can help your team do this efficiently, while also setting your team up for a productive and profitable  OEP. 

An AMS organizes and makes all your essential records easily accessible, eliminating lost files, cluttered paperwork, and time-consuming data silos. The right AMS should provide tools to manage, sort, and streamline your business operations, enabling your team to work more efficiently.

5. Automate Medicare Rx Data Collection

It’s critical for insurance agents to put automated data collection tools into place to streamline AEP. Leveraging a tool for Medicare data collection gives agents the ability to work smarter and pivot sooner to provide the best coverage quotes to their prospects and clients. 

Implementing a tool like Rx Collect into your agency’s service offerings can transform the way you support clients during AEP.  Rx Collect simplifies multiple steps of the enrollment process while improving accuracy and client satisfaction. Here’s how it can help your agency:

• Pre-filled forms for an easier client experience: Rx Collect stores prescription, provider, and pharmacy details securely in AMS+. Clients only need to review, confirm, or update their information each year, saving time and reducing errors. Pro Tip: Attach Scope of Appointments and appointment schedule options for even more efficiency.
• Organize data and streamline efforts: Leverage the Rx Collect dashboard in AMS+ to easily track pending requests, monitor status, and resend links by email or text.

• Simplified and compliant workflows: Connect Rx Collect data with leading Medicare quoting and enrollment tools to reduce manual entry and headaches during busy time. Using this process, you can save time entering the same data over and over, eliminating errors and multiple back-and-forth conversations.

With Rx Collect your team can provide personalized recommendations and a smooth client journey, making enrollment more efficient and profitable.

Setting Your Agency Up for OEP Success

Enrollment season is the ideal opportunity to boost revenue, strengthen client relationships, and position your agency for long-term success. By implementing these five strategies, your team can create an approach that drives both efficiency and profitability.

The key to a successful enrollment season lies in preparation, organization, and leveraging the right tools to support your team's efforts. Start implementing these strategies early to ensure you're ready when the busy season begins.

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This blog was originally published on September 15, 2021, and was updated and republished on August 29, 2023, and again on September 12, 2025.

Posted by Shannon Beck on Friday, September 12, 2025 in Sales Enablement

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