Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield (HGHM-130700434); Individual Transitional Plans; Rate Filing [46 Pa.B. 5864]
[Saturday, September 10, 2016]Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield submitted a rate filing to increase the premium rates for its Individual Transitional Plans renewing on January 1, 2017. The filing proposes a rate increase of 14.9% or approximately $66 per member per month and will affect approximately 4,400 members. The proposed rate increase will generate approximately $3.52 million of additional annual revenue.
Unless formal administrative action is taken prior to November 23, 2016, the subject filing may be deemed approved by operation of law.
A copy of the filing is available on the Insurance Department's (Department) web site at www.insurance.pa.gov. To view these filing notices, hover the cursor over ''Consumers'' in the blue bar at the top of the webpage then select ''Other Health Rate Filings'' from the drop down menu.
A copy of the filing is also available for public inspection, by appointment, during normal working hours at the Department's regional office in Harrisburg.
Interested parties are invited to submit written or e-mail comments, suggestions or objections to Cherri Sanders-Jones, Insurance Department, Insurance Product Regulation, 1311 Strawberry Square, Harrisburg, PA 17120, csandersjo@pa.gov within 30 days after publication of this notice in the Pennsylvania Bulletin.
TERESA D. MILLER,
Insurance Commissioner[Pa.B. Doc. No. 16-1573. Filed for public inspection September 9, 2016, 9:00 a.m.]
