Please use the enclosed documents to prepare your 2002 rate proposal. You must submit your proposal and the completed attachments by May 31, 2001. The May 31 deadline is required by regulations and no one can grant extensions.

Note: If you participate in the DOD demonstration project, we will send separate rate instructions in the near future.

See the enclosed "OPM Community Rating Guidelines - 2002" for pertinent definitions and an overall view of our community rating policy for 2002.

If you are a small carrier (see guidelines for definition), you have two options:

1. Submit the same detailed documentation we require for large carriers (in which case, we will consider you as a large carrier); or
2. If your 2001 income from the Federal group will be $500,000 or more, and you do not elect to file as a large carrier,
   • you must submit Attachments I, IA, IIB, and IIC, and
   • complete Attachments II and IIA and keep them on file and available for OPM review; or

   If your 2001 income from the Federal group will be less than $500,000, and you do not elect to file as a large carrier,
   • you must submit Attachments I, IIB, and IIC, and
   • you do not need to complete or retain Attachments II or IIA.

Please send one copy of the rate submission to each of the following addresses:

If by regular mail Abby Block Assistant Director for Insurance Programs Office of Personnel Management P.O. Box 707 Washington, DC 20044-0707	If by overnight delivery Abby Block Assistant Director for Insurance Programs Office of Personnel Management 1900 E Street, NW., Room 3424 Washington, DC 20415-0001
And Nancy H. Kichak Director, Office of Actuaries Office of Personnel Management 1900 E Street, NW., Room 4307 Washington, DC 20415-0001

Please remember to send your first quarter enrollment report, Table 1, to the following address by April 15:

Office of Personnel Management
Office of Insurance Programs
(Name and Division of OPM Contract Representative)
P.O. Box 707
Washington, DC 20044-0707

Sincerely, Abby L. Block Assistant Director    for Insurance Programs

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