
How to Become a Health Insurance Agent
1. Get your General lines – life, accident, and health license: Lets you sell life and health insurance, including annuities, with just one license.
2. Take the General lines – life, accident, and health: InsTX-LAH05 test.
3. Complete a pre-licensing test course by clicking on the link Pre-licensing Course and following the instructions.
4. After passing the test.
- Get a background check, apply for your license, pay your fee.
- Schedule an appointment with IdentoGO to get electronic fingerprint images. Use service code 11G6QF. Send a digital copy to TDI and the Texas Department of Public Safety.
- You have a year to apply for a license and pay the application fee.
- There’s no fee for new applications if you are a military service member, veteran, or family member with a license in another state.
Other Requirements
Get your 2024 FFM certification and free training courses
If you’re a returning agent and ready to complete your training and earn some free CE credits at the same time, here’s what you’ll do:
- On a desktop or laptop computer, navigate to the MLMS within your CMS Enterprise Portal (mobile coming soon!)
- From there, you'll see an option to complete your Marketplace training with HealthSherpa.
- Click through the HealthSherpa training option, and you'll be redirected to our site.Â
Note: Agents and brokers have to click through their CMS portal to our site for the training to be valid, so make sure you do this step! - Once you're on HealthSherpa.com, sign up for the training and select the appropriate course.
If you're new to the Marketplace, you will need to create a CMS Enterprise Portal account before you can access the training:Â Click here for a step by step guide