The rate increase will affect customers who purchased relatively new plans to comply with Affordable Care Act regulations.
Wellmark executive vice president Laura Jackson blamed the rate increase on a rise in medical costs and a greater number of plan members in poor health. Wellmark administers plans for about three-quarters of Iowa’s individual policy market.
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