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PA Bulletin, Doc. No. 05-1282

NOTICES

Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield; CompleteCare Program (Western Region); Rate Filing

[35 Pa.B. 3742]

   By Filing No. 1A-CCP-05-HBCBS, Highmark Inc. d/b/a Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield requests approval to increase the premium rates for its CompleteCare Program. The filing requests an average increase of about 9.9% or $21.52 per contract per month. This will affect about 31,000 contract holders and will produce additional premium income of about $8 million annually. The filing adjusts the rate relativities between age and gender to be consistent with Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield's other medically underwritten programs; thus some contract holders may receive rate adjustments that are less than or greater than the average. Additionally, this filing proposes to restructure the rates by introducing separate male/female and tobacco/nontobacco rates. The rate restructuring is spread over three stages with the first stage implemented with this filing and the next two stages implemented in the two subsequent filings. The requested effective date of the change is October 1, 2005.

   Unless formal administrative action is taken prior to September 13, 2005, the subject filing may be deemed approved by operation of law.

   A copy of the filing is available on the Insurance Department (Department) website at www.ins.state.pa.us. Under the Quick Links section, click on the link ''Rate Filings Published in the PA Bulletin.''

   Copies of the filing are 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 comments, suggestions or objections to Cherri Sanders-Jones, Insurance Department, Insurance Product Regulation and Market Enforcement, Room 1311, Strawberry Square, Harrisburg, PA 17120, csandersjo@state.pa.us within 30 days after publication of this notice in the Pennsylvania Bulletin.

M. DIANE KOKEN,   
Insurance Commissioner

[Pa.B. Doc. No. 05-1282. Filed for public inspection July 1, 2005, 9:00 a.m.]


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