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PA Bulletin, Doc. No. 03-1477

NOTICES

Highmark, Inc. d/b/a Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield; Request to Increase Rates for the Security 65 Medical Surgical Plans in the Western Region; Filing No. 1-DPCM-03-HBCBS

[33 Pa.B. 3697]

   Highmark, Inc. d/b/a Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield requests approval to increase its premium rates for its Security 65 Medical Surgical Plans for the Western Region. The filing requests an average rate increase of 7.6% or $4.43 per contract per month. This will affect about 76,000 contract holders and produce additional annual premium income of about $4 million. The requested effective date of the change is January 1, 2004.

   The actual requested rates are as follows:

Requested Rates
Security 65 Plans
(Western Region)
Effective January 1, 2004
Security 65--Plans A, B and H
First Eligible $58.90
Late Entry:  65--69 $58.90
Late Entry:  70--79 $68.30
Late Entry:  80 and over $76.60
Security 65--Plan C
First Eligible $66.55
Late Entry:  65--69 $66.55
Late Entry:  70--79 $75.95
Late Entry:  80 and over $84.25

   Copies of the filing are available for public inspection during normal working hours, by appointment, at the Insurance Department's regional offices in Pittsburgh, Erie and Harrisburg.

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

M. DIANE KOKEN,   
Insurance Commissioner

[Pa.B. Doc. No. 03-1477. Filed for public inspection July 25, 2003, 9:00 a.m.]


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