Darin Weidauer, MBA, RSSA®

• CA License #0M00978 · NPN 18580338
• Credentialed gerontologist (2014)
• Registered Social Security Analyst®
• MBA, Pepperdine
• Master’s in Long-Term Care, USC
• 22-yr USAF veteran (retired officer)

Darin Weidauer (CA License #0M00978) is an independent Medicare insurance agent, credentialed gerontologist, and Registered Social Security Analyst® who helps California retirees and people approaching 65 make sense of their Medicare options — clearly, patiently, and with no cost to them.

Background

A 22-year U.S. Air Force veteran who retired as an officer, Darin holds five master’s degrees, including an MBA and a Master’s in Dispute Resolution from Pepperdine University and a Master’s in Long-Term Care from the University of Southern California’s Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, where he became a credentialed gerontologist in 2014 — studying the human side of aging, not just the paperwork. Both degrees are Californian; so is a good part of his career.

A former Professor of Aerospace Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles who has lectured at more than 50 colleges and universities, Darin now channels that teaching instinct into plain-English Medicare education: one-on-one reviews, no-cost community workshops, the free 295-page guide Retire With Confidence, and the pages on this site, every one of which he wrote or reviewed. He is also the founder of MyECOS360, an agency operating system for independent insurance agents, and the author of its training on insurance lead economics.

How he is paid, and what that means for you

ECOS Medicare Solutions is an independent agency: appointed with a number of Medicare Advantage, Medigap and Part D carriers in California, employed by none of them. When you enroll in a plan through us, the carrier pays us a commission. That commission comes out of the carrier’s filed rate — it is never added to your premium. You pay the same whether you enroll through us, through another agent, or directly with the insurer; going direct does not make a policy cheaper, and using us does not make it dearer.

We do not represent every plan sold in California, and we say so on every page. For a complete list, use Medicare.gov, 1-800-MEDICARE, or HICAP (1-800-434-0222), California’s free and independent counseling program.

Licensing

Darin Weidauer holds California insurance license #0M00978 and is a licensed insurance agent in California and fourteen other states — Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Washington — under National Producer Number 18580338. You can verify the California license through the California Department of Insurance license lookup, or any state’s through the NIPR. California law requires the license number to appear next to a licensee’s name in advertising, which is why you will see it throughout this site. The multi-state licence is what lets us follow Californians to Arizona, Nevada, Texas and Utah when they retire out of state.

Where else you will find him

• Author page at MyECOS360 — the canonical profile
• LinkedIn and YouTube
• Sister sites: Medicare Enrollment Arizona, Medicare Enrollment Nevada, Texas Medicare Enrollment, Medicare Enrollment Utah, Medicare Enrollment Florida, Minnesota Medicare Enrollment, and MyMedigapRate, where Medigap rate filings — California’s included — are published filing by filing.

How to reach him

Call (702) 706-6564, email darinweidauer@ecos.care, or use the form at the top of this page. We work with Californians statewide by phone and video.