NABIP | Courses

NABIP Benefit Specialist Institute courses are ideal for employee benefit advisors, consultants, HR, and legal professionals looking to grow their knowledge of public and private healthcare structures. Continued professional development advances careers and provides an edge over the competition. Affordable courses are available in NABIP’s Online Learning Institute library, which provides 24-hour access to the course curriculum. Online courses are self-paced, succinctly explain complex concepts for professionals of varying knowledge levels and backgrounds, and allow learners up to one year to complete. The online courses consist of recordings, supporting documents, quizzes, and a final exam. Upon completing any of the certification courses, students receive a logo brand representing professional academic achievement recognized by clients and peers. Most of the courses offer continuing education credits to maintain state licenses and SHRM certification credits.

Courses can be taken one at a time and most work towards earning the Registered Employee Benefits Consultant® (REBC) designation. Lastly, NABIP members receive a savings of 30% off of NABIP course tuition and a plethora of resources that pair with continued professional success. If you are not a member, join NABIP today.

Expand Your Expertise with NABIP’s Benefit Specialist Institute

ACA and Beyond: A Modern Look at Employee Benefits Certification

Online

Developed by experts in both the Patient Protection and Affordable Care (ACA) and overall employee benefits law, this high-level course will ensure that the student understands the key technical components of the ACA. Additionally, its goal is to ensure that students are aware of how the law came to be enacted, the ACA’s place in the overall body of federal and state laws regulating public and private healthcare and health insurance program, and how the law may evolve and change in the future.

Account-Based Health Plans Certification

Online

Producers must educate their clients on what the driving factors are and where the failure lies in managed care to control costs. A knowledgeable producer can provide in-depth explanations about how our aging population, prescription drug usage, and government intervention creates a complex regulatory and compliance environment. All of these things impact rising consumption and the financial implications that follow.

Benefits Account Manager Certification (Fourth Edition) (Coming Soon)

Online

The purpose of the Benefits Account Manager Certification course is to provide account management professionals with an understanding of the complex and critical role an account manager plays in the health and benefits arena. The training will provide instruction to ensure that students understand the key technical components of benefit plans and are better prepared to counsel their clients on the various products as well as key guidance to assist them in client compliance.

Advanced Benefits Account Manager Certification (First Edition)

Online

The purpose of this advanced level of benefit account management training is to provide seasoned professionals with a deeper understanding of the complex role they play while achieving a higher level of confidence in supporting clients while conveying the value of benefits using creative consultation, regardless the size of the group.

Benefits Technology Certification

Online

The three-hour Benefits Technology Certification program will give you essential understanding of the various types of products and services available, how to assist your client with the discovery process about their known and unknown needs, helpful guidance on how to avoid the pitfalls associated with implementation and how to discuss associated costs.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Modern Workplace

Online

Diversity training is designed to facilitate positive intergroup interaction, reduce prejudice and discrimination, and foundationally teach individuals who are different from others how to work together effectively.

Ethics in Business

Online

This course will educate professionals about ethical behavior and the inherent expectations for ethical behavior in their roles in their relationships with their clients and business resources.

Group Benefits: Basic Concepts

Online

This course educates professionals through an introduction to the basic concepts of group benefits and their role in today’s health insurance marketplace. The course covers employee benefits that include medical expense coverage, life insurance, retiree life insurance, disability income, and managed care plans.

Advanced Topics in Group Benefits

Online

This course covers advanced topics related to group benefits, including ERISA, Medicaid, and Social Security.

Health Insurance 101

Online

This program is designed to explain health insurance in basic terms, and also provide new insurance professionals with contact information for resources that can provide additional help as they dive into their sales career.

HIPAA Certification

Online

This three-hour course instruction will thoroughly explain the HIPAA laws in a multi-media format. Host David C. Smith, a nationally recognized HIPAA and benefits expert, will take you on a video tour of a typical agency and discuss the requirements as they apply to each position in an agency.

Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangements (ICHRA) Certification

Online

This three-hour course provides benefits and insurance professionals the training to better advise employers to achieve a higher comprehension level of the ICHRA market.

Individual Health Insurance Certification

Online

Employer funding of health insurance has declined significantly over the past 30 years which places more responsibility on the individual to provide his or her own financial protection. NABIP created this four-hour course for professionals to better assist their clients in working towards an immediate goal of becoming protected against insurer insolvency.

Pharmaceutical Facts, Policy and the Market Today Certification

Online

This course will explore the interaction between stakeholders, clinical and economic positives, obstacles that affect those that profit, and population that rely on prescription drugs. Attendees will gain a foundation of the industry, role of prescription drugs as a means of providing medical treatment, payment of those benefits and predictions for the future.

Principles in Ethics

Online

This course, instructed by NABIP CEO Janet Trautwein, will discuss misconceptions of what is the norm based on today's social consciousness. An important part of our ethical discussion is fact-finding and factors related to your client's responsibilities in the contract.

Self-Funded Certification

Online

Developed by experts in the market space, this three-hour course instruction will ensure that students understand the key technical components of self-funding and are better prepared to counsel their clients on the various benefits of elimination of most premium tax, lowering cost of administration, claims/administration and customer service for employees.

Advanced Self-Funded Certification

Online

This five-hour course will begin with paying distinct attention to regulatory concerns, service-model options, cost-containment strategies and underwriting. Class participants will walk through unique issues that self-funded plans must face due to mergers and acquisitions followed by a concentration of study covering the integration of next-generation elements in plan design, transparency tools, quality-based models, cost-sharing and control, tool integration and incentives, and payment controls.

Single-Payer Healthcare Certification

Online

Single-payer healthcare, also known as "Medicare for all," is the most controversial health insurance debate in our country. For this reason, NABIP has created this three-hour certification course to educate health insurance professionals on the benefit structure under the single-payer proposal.

Voluntary/Worksite Certification (4th Edition) (Coming Soon)

Online

This three-hour course will ensure a strong technical knowledge of the rules and regulations pertaining to various types of voluntary/worksite products and proven methods for communicating those options to employers and employees in a compelling way.

Corporate Wellness Certification (4th Edition)

Online

After earning this certification, you will be better able to communicate the need for wellness and prevention, demonstrate the effectiveness of wellness with proven case studies, build sound business cases for wellness, and confidently provide guidance on implementation.

Reference-Based Pricing Course (Coming Soon)

Online

Tom Wittick and Woody Waters will walk you through the basics of the RBP mechanism and the details accompanying this platform as more plan sponsors see it as their fiduciary obligation to explore this model.