2017 Michigan Compiled Laws
Chapter 500 - Insurance Code of 1956
Act 218 of 1956 THE INSURANCE CODE OF 1956 (500.100 - 500.8302)
218-1956-38 CHAPTER 38 MEDICARE SUPPLEMENT POLICIES AND CERTIFICATES (500.3801...500.3861)
Section 500.3855 Annual filing of rates, rating schedule, and supporting documentation; premium adjustments; public hearing for rate increase; failure to make premium adjustments.
Sec. 3855.
(1) Each insurer that issues medicare supplement policies for delivery in this state shall file annually with the commissioner, on a form and in the manner prescribed by the commissioner, its rates, rating schedule, and supporting documentation including all claims experience of the insurer for medicare supplement coverage. The filings and schedules shall demonstrate that the actual and expected losses in relation to premiums are in compliance with the applicable loss ratio standards of this state. The supporting documentation shall also be in accordance with actuarial standards of practice using reasonable assumptions that the appropriate loss ratio standards can be expected to be met over the entire period for which rates are computed excluding active life reserves. An expected third-year loss ratio that is greater than or equal to the applicable percentage under section 3851 shall be demonstrated for policies or certificates in force less than 3 years.
(2) An insurer shall make such premium adjustments as are necessary to produce an expected loss ratio under the medicare supplement policy as will conform with minimum loss ratio standards for medicare supplement policies and certificates and that are expected to result in a loss ratio at least as great as that originally anticipated in the rates used to produce current premiums by the insurer for such medicare supplement insurance policies. A premium adjustment that would modify the loss ratio experience under the policy shall not be made with respect to a policy at any time other than upon its renewal date or anniversary date.
(3) The commissioner may conduct a public hearing to gather information concerning a request by a medicare supplement insurer for an increase in a rate for a medicare supplement policy form or certificate form issued before or after the effective date of this chapter if the experience of the form for the previous reporting period is not in compliance with the applicable loss ratio standard. The determination of compliance shall be made without consideration of any refund or credit for the reporting period. Public notice of the hearing shall be furnished in a manner considered appropriate by the commissioner.
(4) If a medicare supplement insurer fails to make premium adjustments acceptable to the commissioner, the commissioner may order premium adjustments, refunds, or premium credits considered necessary to achieve the loss ratio required by this section.
History: Add. 1992, Act 84, Imd. Eff. June 2, 1992
Popular Name: Act 218
