{"id":6683,"date":"2017-05-05T11:30:59","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T15:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=6683"},"modified":"2017-05-05T11:30:59","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T15:30:59","slug":"in-maryland-fifty-two-percent-premium-increase-requested-by-carefirst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=6683","title":{"rendered":"In Maryland: Fifty-Two Percent Premium Increase Requested by CareFirst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, Maryland\u2019s largest health insurer asked state regulators permission to raise rates by an average of 52 percent on health plans purchased by individuals on the state insurance exchange. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/health\/blog\/bs-hs-rate-increases-20170504-story.html?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20Daily%20Health%20Policy%20Report&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=51579821&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8EABlh9YLj6TadkFFgsEwil976nRsY8CHipAT-yL1_nPTqVe6AAM8_GEI9bUNG5a8QQNVMM9O_6VderiTwtFaDES0vIA&amp;_hsmi=51579821\" target=\"_blank\">Read article here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, Maryland\u2019s largest health insurer asked state regulators permission to raise rates by an average of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-affordable-care-act-aca","category-health-care-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6684,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6683\/revisions\/6684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}