(a) (1) A health care service plan shall file with the department all required rate information for grandfathered individual and grandfathered and nongrandfathered group health care service plan contracts at least 120 days before implementing any rate change. (2) A health care service plan shall file with the department all required rate information for nongrandfathered individual health care service plan contracts on the earlier of the following dates: (A) One hundred days before the commencement of the annual enrollment period of the preceding policy year. (B) The date specified in the federal guidance issued pursuant to Section 154.220(b) of Title 45 of the Code of Federal Regulations. (3) For large group products that are either experience rated, in whole or blended, or community rated, a health care service plan shall file the information required by this article at least annually and shall file 120 days before any change in the methodology, factors, or assumptions that would affect the rates paid by a large group. (b) A plan shall disclose to the department all of the following for each rate filing for products in the individual, small group, community-rated segment of the large group market, and experience-rated segment, in whole or blended, in the large group market: (1) Company name and contact information. (2) Number of plan contract forms covered by the filing. (3) Plan contract form numbers covered by the filing. (4) Product type, such as a preferred provider organization or health maintenance organization. (5) Segment type. (6) Type of plan involved, such as for profit or not for profit. (7) Whether the products are opened or closed. (8) Enrollment in each plan contract and rating form. (9) Enrollee months in each plan contract form. (10) Annual rate. (11) Total earned premiums in each plan contract form. (12) Total incurred claims in each plan contract form. (13) Average rate increase initially requested. (14) Review category: initial filing for new product, filing for existing product, or resubmission. (15) Average rate of increase. (16) Effective date of rate increase. (17) Number of subscribers or enrollees affected by each plan contract form. (18) A comparison of claims cost and rate of changes over time. (19) Any changes in enrollee cost sharing over the prior year associated with the submitted rate filing. (20) Any changes in enrollee benefits over the prior year associated with the submitted rate filing. (21) The certification described in subdivision (b) of Section 1385.06. (22) Any changes in administrative costs. (23) Any other information required for rate review under PPACA. (c) A health care service plan subject to subdivision (a) shall disclose the following by geographic region for individual, grandfathered group, and nongrandfathered group contracts: (1) The planâs overall annual medical trend factor assumptions for all benefits and by aggregate benefit category, including hospital inpatient, hospital outpatient, physician services, prescription drugs and other ancillary services, laboratory, and radiology. The plan shall also disclose integrated care management fees or other similar fees, as well as reclassification of services from one benefit category to another, such as from inpatient to outpatient. (2) Aggregated additional data that demonstrates or reasonably estimates year-to-year cost increases in specific benefit categories. (3) Information by benefit category that demonstrates the price paid compared to the price paid by the Medicare Program for the same services. (4) Variation in trend, by geographic region, if the plan serves more than one geographic region. (d) A health care service plan subject to subdivision (a) shall disclose, by geographic region for individual, grandfathered group, and nongrandfathered group contracts, the amount of the projected trend attributable to the use of services, price inflation, or fees and risk for annual plan contract trends by aggregate benefit cat
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