The following statements are about a health plan's pricing of a preferred provider organization (PPO) plan. Three of the statements are true, and one statement is false. Select the answer choice containing the FALSE statement.
A.
Typically, the first step in pricing a PPO is to develop a base indemnity claims cost, which results from adjusting the indemnity plan as though the entire eligible group of employees is enrolled in the indemnity plan.
B.
To develop the expected claims costs for the in-network PPO plan, the health plan's actuaries adjust the base indemnity claims costs to reflect pertinent characteristics of the plan, including the specific network plan design and provider discount arrangements.
C.
One difficulty in pricing a PPO is that the health plan's actuaries have no method of estimating which employees would be likely to select which provider groups.
D.
After the health plan's actuaries use risk adjustment factors to adjust the existing claims costs for selection issues, the actuaries weight the in network and out-of-network costs to arrive at a composite claims cost for the PPO plan.
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