Thursday, July 12, 2012

Providence Rate Filing


I'm normally sympathetic to insurers, but something about this filing rubs me wrong.  Maybe it's because someone thought it was important that everyone know that we're paying an extra 1.1% for women's preventative health services through the ACA, so important that they included it as a line item in the summary.

Or maybe it's because of this:


Instead of estimating an annual factor and blowing it out over 23 months I'm looking at the actual 23 month changes.  I'm comparing that to Providence's selected 7.2% annual factor, which compounds out to 14.3%.  Even against the worst point in 2011 the factor used in the proposed rates is almost double.  Putting it in comparative terms,


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