The Arkansas Exchange Producer license

Rule 104 is one page and it names all four instruments in a single definition: "'License' means a license obtained from the Arkansas Insurance Department for an IPA Guide, Navigator, Certified Application Counselor, or Health Insurance Marketplace licensed producer."It sets one figure for all four, a $35 regulatory fee paid before issue and $35 again at every annual renewal, and it has applied to every assister license issued or renewed since 12 September 2013. The authority is Section 1 of Act 1439 of 2013, codified at Ark. Code Ann. 23-64-607. The examination vendor gives no assister paper among its eleven and Rule 31 sets no assister syllabus, so what stands in for both is federal: the Marketplace Learning Management System training and testing the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services run, which the Department says outright it will not process an application without. "APPLICATIONS WILL NOT BE PROCESSED UNTIL ALL TRAINING IS COMPLETED."This is the "Health Insurance Marketplace licensed producer" of Rule 104's definition, and the Department states the extra condition in its own words: "Act 1439 of 2013 requires Agents and Brokers enrolling Arkansas consumers on the Health Insurance Marketplace to obtain an Exchange Producer license from the Arkansas Insurance Department (AID). To be eligible for Exchange Producer licensure, agents must hold an active Arkansas Life & Health License". An electronic background check goes with the application. A licensee who stops wanting to work the Marketplace surrenders this license on a form of its own without touching the producer license underneath it.

Read at the Department on 2026-08-20