NOTICES
Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield; Filing No. 1A-SSC-09-HBCBS; Request to Increase Rates for the Direct Pay Special Care Hospital Plan (Western Region); Rate Filing
[39 Pa.B. 4980]
[Saturday, August 15, 2009]By filing No. 1A-SSC-09-HBCBS, Highmark, Inc., d/b/a Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield, requests approval to increase its premium rates for its Direct Pay Special Care Hospital Plan (Western Region). The filing requests an increase of about 15.0% or $17.04 per contract per month. This will affect about 9,200 contractholders and produce additional premium income of about $1,884,000 per year. The requested effective date of the change is January 1, 2010.
Unless formal administrative action is taken prior to October 29, 2009, the subject filing may be deemed approved by operation of law.
A copy of the filing is available on the Insurance Department's web site at www.ins.state.pa.us. Scroll down the home page and click on ''Consumer Information'' located on the left side. Next scroll down to ''General Information,'' located in the middle of the page, and click on ''Notices.'' The pdf copy of this filing is located at the link ''Filing.pdf'' following the name of the filing.
Interested parties are invited to submit written comments, suggestions or objections to James Laverty, Actuary, Insurance Department, Insurance Product Regulation and Market Enforcement, Room 1311, Strawberry Square, Harrisburg, PA 17120, jlaverty@state.pa.us within 30 days after publication of this notice in the Pennsylvania Bulletin.
JOEL SCOTT ARIO,
Insurance Commissioner
[Pa.B. Doc. No. 09-1503. Filed for public inspection August 14, 2009, 9:00 a.m.]
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