An Act To Protect Health Insurance Consumers
Maine Legislature, Session 122, LD 1935
Committee Amendment CA_A-HA_I_H1105 (House)

HOUSE AMENDMENT ::1:-" to COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "A" to S.P. 736, 
L.D. 1935, Bill, "An Act To Protect Health Insurance Consumers" 
Amend the amendment in Part A by striking out all of section 
(page 3, lines 1 to 34 in amendment) and inserting in its place 
the following: 
'Sec. A-4. 
FL~ed savings offset payment for plan years beginning 
January 1, 2006 to December 31, 2006. Notwithstanding the Maine 
Revised Statutes, Title 24-A, section 6913, subsections 1 to 3, 
the savings offset payment for plan years beginning January 1, 
2006 to December 31, 2006 must equal a total of $23,000,000 for 
all health 
insurance 
carriers, 
3rd-party administrators 
and 
employee 
benefit 
excess 
insurance carriers. 
For 
plan 
years 
beginning January 1, 
2006 to December 
31, 
2006 
the Board of 
Directors of Dirigo Health shall disregard the savings offset 
amount 
calculation 
set 
forth 
in Title 
24-A, 
section 
6913, 
subsection 2. 
The savings offset payment established pursuant to 
this 
section must 
be 
paid 
in 
accordance 
with 
the 
schedule 
established in Title 24-A, section 6913, subsection 3, paragraph 
F. 
No later than 90 days after the effective date of this Act, 
all health insurance carriers shall file amended rate filings 
with the Superintendent of Insurance demonstrating the effect of 
the reduced savings offset payment pursuant to this section on 
premium rates and attesting that the carrier has used its best 
efforts to ensure that rates reflect the reduced savings offset 
payment. 
The savings offset payment set forth in this section 
applies retroactively to any savings offset payment that has been 
assessed and paid pursuant to Title 24-A, section 6913 for plan 
years beginning January 1, 2006. 
No later than 30 days following 
the effective date of this Act, Dirigo Health shall issue refunds 
of, 
or credits for, 
any amounts 
collected in excess 
of 
the 
limitations established in this section. 
This section applies 
HOUSE AMENDMENT 
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HOUSE AMENDMENT';;::: to COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "A" to S.P. 736, L.D. 
1935 
only to the savings offset payment for plan years beginning 
January 1, 2006 to December 31, 2006. 
This section may not be 
construed as repealing, 
amending or modifying in any way the 
provisions of Title 24-A, section 6913 for plan years beginning 
on or after January 1, 2007.' 
Further amend the amendment 
first line (page 6, line 36 in 
in Part B ln section 11 in the 
amendment) by striking out the 
inserting 
in 
its 
place 
the 
following: 
following: 
"November 
1, " 
'November 15,' 
and 
SUMMARY 
This amendment strikes the provisions of Committee Amendment. 
"A" to L.D. 1935 that govern the savings offset payment for plan 
years beginning on or after January 1, 2006 to December 31, 2006 
and replaces them with a provision that states that the savings 
offset payment 
for plan years 
beginning January 1, 
2006 
to 
December 31,2006 must equal a total of $23,000,000 for all 
health insurance carriers, 3rd-party administrators and employee 
benefit excess insurance carriers. 
It changes the deadline for 
the Blue Ribbon Commission on the Long-term Funding of the Dirigo 
Health Program to report to the joint standing committee of the 
Legislature 
having 
jurisdiction over 
insurance 
and 
financial 
services 
matters 
and 
the 
joint 
standing 
committee 
of 
the 
Legislature having jurisdiction over appropriations and financial 
affairs from November 1, 2006 to November 15, 2006. 
. 
SPONSORED BY, m~ 
(Representative 
RAUTIG M) 
TOWN: 
Falmouth 
HOUSE AMENDMENT