Last week Montana’s Insurance Commissioner Monica Lindeen approved big price increases for some health insurance plans in the state – increases from 5 percent to more than 30 percent higher than last year.
To find out who exactly those rate increases do and don’t apply to, and why the rate increases are so big, we talked to Commissioner Lindeen’s General Counsel Christina Goe.
Health insurance companies that sell in the individual market in Montana have to provide justifications for their price increases. You can read those justifications here:
Rate justification provided by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Montana