2017 Rate Request Early Look: New York

Thanks to Zachery Tracer (as well as Dan Goldberg & Cynthia Cox) for the heads up...

Well, now...this is about as cut & dry as it gets! They don't display the actual enrollment numbers for each carrier, but that's OK because the only real reason I need it in the first place is to weight the increases by market share...which the New York Dept. of Financial Services has helpfully already done!

And there you have it: A weighted average requested rate increase of 17.3% across the entire state's ACA-compliant individual market. Remember that NY never allowed transitional plans anyway, and there are likely only a handful of grandfathered plans left on the individual market, so this should cover well over 90% of the market.

They also included the Small Group market, which I take note of when available but don't really track nearly as closely as the indy market: