Health Insurance Associate (HIA):
In a competitive work environment, employers depend on key performers. By earning the Insurance Education’s HIA® designation, students will join the industry’s elite; more than 20,000 professionals have mastered this comprehensive program. They will gain a thorough knowledge of the marketing, administration, and evaluation of various kinds of coverage, and will examine principles, contracts, underwriting, and marketing. Students will also have an understanding of cost management, pricing, claims administration, policy issue and renewal, government regulation, and fraud.

Following are the compulsory subjects in order to attain the HIA Certification:

1. Fundamentals of Health Insurance, Part A (Basics of Health Insurance).
2. Fundamentals of Health Insurance, Part B (Basics of Company Operations).
3. Health Insurance Advanced Studies, Part A.
4. Supplemental Health Insurance.
5. Two of the following electives:

• Disability, Part I (Primer).
• Disability, Part II (Advanced Issues).
• Disability, Part III (Group and Worksite Issues).
• Fraud, Part I (Introduction).
• Long-Term Care, Part I (Needs and Options).


Entry requirements: None.

Recommended study time: 15 training hours per unit.