Section 3923.022 | Maximum aggregate administrative expenses.
(A) As used in this section:
(1)(a) "Administrative expense" means the amount resulting from the following: the amount of premiums earned by the insurer for sickness and accident insurance business plus the amount of losses recovered from reinsurance coverage minus the sum of the amount of claims for losses paid; the amount of losses incurred but not reported; the amount incurred for state fees, federal and state taxes, and reinsurance; and the incurred costs and expenses related, either directly or indirectly, to the payment of commissions, measures to control fraud, and managed care.
(b) "Administrative expense" does not include any amounts collected, or administrative expenses incurred, by an insurer for the administration of an employee health benefit plan subject to regulation by the federal "Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974," 88 Stat. 832, 29 U.S.C.A. 1001, as amended. "Amounts collected or administrative expenses incurred" means the total amount paid to an administrator for the administration and payment of claims minus the sum of the amount of claims for losses paid and the amount of losses incurred but not reported.
(2) "Insurer" means any insurance company authorized under Title XXXIX of the Revised Code to do the business of sickness and accident insurance in this state.
(3) "Sickness and accident insurance business" does not include coverage provided by an insurer for specific diseases or accidents only; any hospital indemnity, medicare supplement, long-term care, disability income, one-time-limited-duration policy of no longer than six months, or other policy that offers only supplemental benefits; or coverage provided to individuals who are not residents of this state.
(4) "Individual business" includes both individual sickness and accident insurance and sickness and accident insurance made available by insurers in the individual market to individuals, with or without family members or dependents, through group policies issued to one or more associations or entities.
(B) Notwithstanding section 3941.14 of the Revised Code, each insurer shall have aggregate administrative expenses of no more than twenty per cent of the premium income of the insurer, based on the premiums earned in that year on the sickness and accident insurance business of the insurer.
(C)(1) Each insurer, on the first day of January or within sixty days thereafter, shall annually prepare, under oath, and deposit in the office of the superintendent of insurance a statement of the aggregate administrative expenses of the insurer, based on the premiums earned in the immediately preceding calendar year on the sickness and accident insurance business of the insurer. The statement shall itemize and separately detail all of the following information with respect to the insurer's sickness and accident insurance business:
(a) The amount of premiums earned by the insurer both before and after any costs related to the insurer's purchase of reinsurance coverage;
(b) The total amount of claims for losses paid by the insurer both before and after any reimbursement from reinsurance coverage;
(c) The amount of any losses incurred by the insurer but not reported by the insurer in the current or prior year;
(d) The amount of costs incurred by the insurer for state fees and federal and state taxes;
(e) The amount of costs incurred by the insurer for reinsurance coverage;
(f) The amount of costs incurred by the insurer that are related to the insurer's payment of commissions;
(g) The amount of costs incurred by the insurer that are related to the insurer's fraud prevention measures;
(h) The amount of costs incurred by the insurer that are related to managed care; and
(i) Any other administrative expenses incurred by the insurer.
(2) The statement also shall include all of the information required under division (C)(1) of this section separately detailed for the insurer's individual business, small group business, and large group business.
(D) No insurer shall fail to comply with this section.
(E) If the superintendent determines that an insurer has violated this section, the superintendent, pursuant to an adjudication conducted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, may order the suspension of the insurer's license to do the business of sickness and accident insurance in this state until the superintendent is satisfied that the insurer is in compliance with this section. If the insurer continues to do the business of sickness and accident insurance in this state while under the suspension order, the superintendent shall order the insurer to pay one thousand dollars for each day of the violation.
(F) Any money collected by the superintendent under division (E) of this section shall be deposited by the superintendent into the state treasury to the credit of the department of insurance operating fund.
(G) The statement of aggregate expenses filed pursuant to this section separately detailing an insurer's individual, small group, and large group business shall be considered work papers resulting from the conduct of a market analysis of an entity subject to examination by the superintendent under division (C) of section 3901.48 of the Revised Code, except that the superintendent may share aggregated market information that identifies the premiums earned as reported under division (C)(1)(a) of this section, the administrative expenses reported under division (C)(1)(i) of this section, the amount of commissions reported under division (C)(1)(f) of this section, the amount of taxes paid as reported under division (C)(1)(d) of this section, the total of the remaining benefit costs as reported under divisions (C)(1)(b) and (c) of this section, and the amount of fraud and managed care expenses reported under divisions (C)(1)(g) and (h) of this section.
Available Versions of this Section
- October 16, 2009 – House Bill 1 - 128th General Assembly [ View October 16, 2009 Version ]
- March 23, 2015 – House Bill 201 - 130th General Assembly [ View March 23, 2015 Version ]