CareFirst, other insurers to raise individual...

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The Maryland Insurance Administration approved double-digit percent rate increases for all individual health care insurance plans for 2017, including a 31.4 percent rate hike for the state’s largest provider, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield. CareFirst was one of six health insurers operating in Maryland to request rate increases for individual and small group health plans for the coming year. Four of those companies — CareFirst, Cigna, Kaiser Permanente of the Mid-Atlantic States and Evergreen…