503 Blue Cross of Western Pennsylvania: Filing for Prescription Drug Rating Factors for Experience-Rated Accounts; filing no. 1-FSD-96-WP

Blue Cross of Western Pennsylvania; Filing for Prescription Drug Rating Factors for Experience-Rated Accounts; Filing No. 1-FSD-96-WP

[26 Pa.B. 1452]

   Blue Cross of Western Pennsylvania has submitted filing no. 1-FSD-96-WP for Insurance Department approval. This filing establishes new business rates and revises rating factors applicable to experience-rated groups having freestanding prescription drug programs. Approximately 500,000 group subscribers are covered under these programs. An effective date of July 1, 1996, is requested for this filing.

   Copies of the filing are available for public inspection on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, by appointment, during normal work hours at the Insurance Department's Offices in Harrisburg, Pittsburgh and Erie.

   Interested parties are invited to submit written comments, suggestions or objections to Bharat Patel, Actuary, Insurance Department, Office of Rate and Policy Regulation, Bureau of Accident and Health Insurance, 1311 Strawberry Square, Harrisburg, PA 17120, within 30 days after publication of this notice in the Pennsylvania Bulletin.

LINDA S. KAISER,   
Insurance Commissioner

[Pa.B. Doc. No. 96-503. Filed for public inspection March 29, 1996, 9:00 a.m.]