Blue Cross of Northeastern PA Rate Increase
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
Blue Cross of Northeastern Pennsylvania has filed a rate increase request with the Pennsylvania Department of Insurance for a handful of individual health insurance products.
If the rate increase request is approved it would impact about 56,000 existing customers of the Blue Cross health insurance company, or about 10% of their subscriber base.
The individual product offerings that will be impacted include:
- Security 65: Medicare Supplement Plans. 37,000 Subscribers impacted. Requested rate increase is 10% for 1 option and 19.9% for another.
- Blue Care Cooperative: 7,000 subscribers impacted. Requested rate increase 48.9%.
- Special Care: 5,000 subscribers impacted. Requested rate increase 27.0%
- Major Medical: 6,000 subscribers impacted. Requested rate increase 27.0%
- HMO Individual Conversion: 1,000 subscribers impacted. Requested rate increase 27% (with Rx) 12% without.
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