Tim Smolen, Statewide Health Insurance Benefits Advisors (SHIBA) Program Manager, and our very own Matt Groshong, RPEC Healthcare Workgroup Chair and Ch. 3 President, have joined us once again to prepare you for the fast-approaching Medicare open enrollment period.

In this special webcast, Tim unveils a new resource to help Medicare enrollees get ready for open enrollment in just 7 easy steps, and we have an accompanying PowerPoint which members can download from the RPEC website.

Don't sleep on open enrollment, or you might wake up to an unpleasant surprise in January!

Links/Credits:

The Olympian article

Order the Medicare OEP jumpstart toolkit

www.insurance.wa.gov

www.insurance.wa.gov/medicareOEP

www.medicare.gov

Member engagement is how RPEC members participate and interact with the organization. This can take on many forms, but is there a right or wrong way to be engaged? (Spoiler alert: NO!)

To help us illustrate what member engagement could look like, we are joined by RPEC member Susan Leschinski from Chapter 21 in the Tri-cities area. Susan is heavily involved in the organization and shares with us her findings from an extensive project she undertook to identify different levels of member engagement. Listeners beware! You may find her enthusiasm contagious…

This legislative session, RPEC is monitoring over 30 bills. How do we know which bills to monitor? How do we determine our position on these bills? Where are these bills in the legislative process? How can you stay informed and get involved? So many questions…and we have so many answers! Tune in for an update from Executive Director Laurie Weidner and Associate Director Derek VanSpoor on the 2025 legislative session and our federal relations. (Recorded March 13th. Be sure to check our Bill Tracker at www.rpecwa.org!)