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title: First Priority Health — Medical Loss Ratio & rebates (Pennsylvania, 2024)
license: CC0-1.0
source: CMS — Medical Loss Ratio (MLR) Public Use File, 2024 reporting year
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# First Priority Health — Medical Loss Ratio & rebates (Pennsylvania, 2024)

Medical Loss Ratio and rebate outcomes for First Priority Health (parent group: Highmark GRP, as reported) in Pennsylvania, 2024 MLR reporting year, by market: large group 81.9%. Owed $923,410 in rebates. RECORDED CMS-published MLR / standard / premium / rebate; rebate-as-%-of-premium is DERIVED. A spending ratio across the whole book in a market — not plan quality or advice. CC0.

## Claims

### First Priority Health spent 81.9% of large group premiums on care in PA (2024) → $923,410 rebate

**RECORDED.** In the Pennsylvania large group market, First Priority Health's three-year credibility-adjusted Medical Loss Ratio was 81.9% against the 85% floor, on $29,787,431 of 2024 premium earned. It fell below the floor and owed $923,410 in rebates (≈$234 per enrollee). RECORDED CMS-published figures (occurred=true; an actual backward-looking ratio insurers report under the 80/20 rule, adjudged=TRUE — CMS published it); rebate-per-enrollee is a DERIVED sub-figure.

Source: CMS — Medical Loss Ratio (MLR) Public Use File, 2024 reporting year — https://www.cms.gov/marketplace/private-health-insurance/medical-loss-ratio
Falsifier: A RECORD of measured/reported events (occurred=true) from CMS — Medical Loss Ratio (MLR) Public Use File, 2024 reporting year; superseded when CMS — Medical Loss Ratio (MLR) Public Use File, 2024 reporting year publishes its next release.

### What a Medical Loss Ratio is — and is NOT

**INTERPRETATION.** A Medical Loss Ratio is a spending ratio across an issuer's WHOLE book in a market for a past period — the share of premium spent on care + quality improvement versus administration and profit. It is NOT a measure of plan quality, of your individual plan's value, or of coverage availability, and it is NOT advice. A low MLR triggers a rebate; it does not rate care.

Source: Coverage Atlas L5 boundary (a book-level spending ratio ≠ plan quality) — https://coverage-atlas.ryanjhunter.workers.dev/
Falsifier: occurred=FALSE (a framing, not an event) and adjudged=FALSE (an in-house reading, not an authority's verdict) — the LOWEST-warrant claim here. A flat representation would render this identically to the official facts; the four-status does not.

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Every claim above carries a four-status warrant (RECORDED / MODELED / DERIVED / INTERPRETATION) and a named source you can re-fetch — this is a research object, not a flat fact. Structured: `https://coverage-atlas.ryanjhunter.workers.dev/coverage/mlr/83731-pa.jsonld`

## Data

### Medical Loss Ratio by market — First Priority Health (Pennsylvania, 2024)

CMS-published credibility-adjusted MLR, standard, premium, and rebate (RECORDED). Rebate-per-enrollee is DERIVED.

| Market | 3-yr MLR | Floor | Met floor? | Premium (2024) | Rebate owed | Per enrollee | Warrant |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Large group | 81.9% | 85% | no | $29,787,431 | $923,410 | ≈$234 | RECORDED |