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PA Bulletin, Doc. No. 09-864

NOTICES

Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield (Western Region); Medically Underwritten Direct Pay PPO Plan and High Deductible PPO Health Plan; Rate Filing

[39 Pa.B. 2422]
[Saturday, May 9, 2009]

   By filing No. 1A-MUPPO and HDHP-09-HBCBS, Highmark, Inc., d/b/a Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield, requests approval to adjust rates for its medically underwritten Direct Pay PPO Plan and Direct Pay PPO High Deductible Health Plans in the Western Pennsylvania Region. The filing requests an average increase of 2.9% or $7.05 per contract per month. This filing will affect approximately 15,700 contractholders and will produce additional income of about $1.3 million annually. The requested effective date of the change is October 1, 2009.

   Unless formal administrative action is taken prior to July 23, 2009, 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.ins.state.pa.us. To access the filing, under ''Quick Links'' click on ''Rate Filings Published in the PA Bulletin.''

   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 Rashmi Mathur, Insurance Department, Insurance Product Regulation, 1311 Strawberry Square, Harrisburg, PA 17120 rmathur@state.pa.us within 30 days after publication of this notice in the Pennsylvania Bulletin.

JOEL SCOTT ARIO,   
Insurance Department

[Pa.B. Doc. No. 09-864. Filed for public inspection May 8, 2009, 9:00 a.m.]


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