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PA Bulletin, Doc. No. 03-1867

NOTICES

Highmark Inc. d/b/a Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield; Revised Rating Methodology for Clients with 50 or Fewer Contracts; Rate Filing

[33 Pa.B. 4760]

   By filing no. 2-DEM-03-HBCBS, Highmark Inc. d/b/a Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield requests approval of a revised rating methodology for small group clients (that is, 50 or fewer contracts). The revisions include a client level age/sex factor calculated from age/sex factors at the contract-holder level and expanded ranges for that demographic factor. Highmark also requests approval to include a measure of health status in its demographic rating formula by implementing the use of Prospective Relative Risk Scores.

   The requested effective date of the change is July 1, 2004.

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

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

M. DIANE KOKEN,   
Insurance Commissioner

[Pa.B. Doc. No. 03-1867. Filed for public inspection September 19, 2003, 9:00 a.m.]


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