Dirigo Health Filing : Bureau of Insurance

STATE OF MAINE
DEPARTMENT OF PROFESSIONAL AND FINANCIAL REGULATION
BUREAU OF INSURANCE

IN RE: REVIEW OF AGGREGATE MEASURABLE COST SAVINGS DETERMINED BY DIRIGO HEALTH FOR THE THIRD ASSESSMENT YEAR

Docket No. INS-07-900

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SCHEDULING ORDER

Acting Superintendent of Insurance Eric A. Cioppa issues this order to establish the schedule of the public hearing in this matter set for September 10, 2007, beginning at 9:00 a.m. in Room 209 of the Burton M. Cross Building, 111 Sewall Street, Augusta, Maine.

Consistent with the previous rulings of the Superintendent, the public hearing will consist of oral argument by the parties. The Superintendent will entertain argument by counsel on the following topics adopted by the Dirigo Board for determining aggregate measurable cost savings as presented in its filing, totaling $78,143,400: (1) hospital initiatives [$70,600,000]; (2) uninsured/underinsured initiatives [$6,343,400]; (3) health care provider fee initiatives [$5,200,000]; and (4) overlap [reduction in savings determination of $4,000,000]. Each party will be allotted a total of fifty-five (55) minutes to make oral argument, inclusive of questioning by the Superintendent, on the four topics adopted by the Board. At the beginning of the hearing on September 10th, each party will be required to identify its time allocation among the four topics for argument at the hearing. Additionally, each party will be allotted ten (10) minutes for argument, to be presented at the conclusion of the argument on the four topics, on issues that are relevant to the Superintendent's determination and not concerning the four topics.

The order of argument will begin with hospital initiatives, followed next by uninsured/underinsured initiatives, then health care provider fee initiatives, and lastly overlap. Dirigo will go first on each topic, followed by the payor intervenors in an order they may select (i.e., the Maine Automobile Dealers Association Insurance Trust, the Maine Association of Health Plans, and the Maine State Chamber of Commerce), and then Consumers for Affordable Health Care (CAHC). At the conclusion of the arguments on the four topics, the ten-minute argument opportunity will begin with the payor intervenors in an order they may select, followed by CAHC, and concluding with Dirigo.

PER ORDER OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF INSURANCE

DATED: September 4, 2007

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ERIC A. CIOPPA
Acting Superintendent of Insurance

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