DROP!!: (Ep. 54) Deserve to Win Podcast w/ HealthPlanOne’s Steve Kaplan on AEP and How Medicare Game Has Changed!

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Well AEP 2026 is off to a hot start with everyone talking about the new Medicare comp structures and CMS regs– plus is one-to-one consent coming back?

We turn to one of the most BRILLIANT minds on the subject– HealthPlanOne’s Head of Legal and Compliance Steve Kaplan!

Steve breaks down all the new changes and nuances in the law and regs and gives us the history of how we got here– and where we are headed.

Plus we discuss the new Bi-Partisan “Stop Spam Calls Act” and the possibility Congress bring back one-to-one consent– what can #leadgeneration companies do about it?

Before we get to this big interview the team breaks down all the biggest TCPAWorld news including:

1. A new ruling authorizing potential trifurcation of discovery in a TCPA class action (Hopkins v. Homelight);

2. S.D. Fl. just broke in favor of the “SMS are not calls” Argument and this is a huge deal (Pillips v. GJD Stars, Inc);

3. A Plaintiff and his attorney are in big trouble in a TCPA class action and could be facing six figures in sanctions! (Human v. Fisher Investments);

4. TCPA class action filings are down for the third straight month YoY compared to 2025- and what is going on here?; and

5. The FCC might be legalizing GenAI political messages to your cell phone without consent– this feels like a terrible idea.

All this right here right now!

Enjoy!

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The Czar of TCPAWorld Eric Troutman is one of the country’s prominent class action defense lawyers and is nationally recognized in Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) litigation and compliance. He has served as lead defense counsel in more than 70 national TCPA class actions and has litigated nearly a thousand individual TCPA cases in his role as national strategic litigation counsel for major banks and finance companies. He also helps industry participants build TCPA-compliant processes, policies, and systems. Eric has built a national litigation practice based upon deep experience, rigorous analysis and extraordinary responsiveness. Eric and his team feel equally at home litigating multibillion dollar telecommunications class actions in federal court as they do developing and executing national litigation strategies for institutions facing an onslaught of individual TCPA matters. They thrive in each of these roles – delivering consistently excellent results – while never losing sight of the client experience. While many firms now tout TCPA expertise, Eric has been there from the beginning. He built one of the country’s first TCPA-only defense teams and began serving as national TCPA counsel for his clients nearly a decade ago. This perspective allows him to swiftly develop the right litigation strategies for dealing with recurring problems, without wasting time on tactics that are bound to fail. Eric’s rich historical perspective and encyclopedic knowledge of the TCPA landscape also make him an invaluable resource to institutional compliance teams struggling to comply with the shifting regulatory landscape. No task is too small – or too big. Indeed, Eric and his team have helped build TCPA-compliant systems and processes for some of the largest and most complex corporate entities in the country. He commonly works with in-house compliance counsel to build and implement enterprise and business-line specific TCPA solutions, performs TCPA audits and drafts and reviews proposed TCPA policies and procedures. He and his team also have the technical expertise necessary to assist call centers seeking to develop TCPA-resistant call path architecture or to modify existing telephony and software integration to better insulate from potential TCPA exposure. Eric has built a reputation for thought leadership. An avid blogger and speaker, he has been at the forefront of the industry’s effort to push for clarity and a return to sanity for the TCPA for years. He was selected to advocate for the financial services industry on important TCPA issues before the Federal Communications Commission and co-authored the nation’s only comprehensive practice guide on TCPA defense. In his spare time, Eric leads defense teams representing banks and other financial services companies in consumer finance litigation matters. He has experience representing clients in UCC, TILA, RESPA FCRA, CCRA, CLRA, FDCPA, RFDCPA and FCCPA claims, as well as in fraud and bank operations issues.

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