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Medicare Part D
12 Months Ended
Mar. 02, 2019
Medicare Part D  
Medicare Part D

9. Medicare Part D

The Company offers Medicare Part D benefits through EIC, which has contracted with CMS to be a PDP and, pursuant to the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003, must be a risk-bearing entity regulated under state insurance laws or similar statutes.

EIC is a licensed domestic insurance company under the applicable laws and regulations. Pursuant to these laws and regulations, EIC must file quarterly and annual reports with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (“NAIC”) and certain state regulators, must maintain certain minimum amounts of capital and surplus under formulas established by certain states and must, in certain circumstances, request and receive the approval of certain state regulators before making dividend payments or other capital distributions to the Company. The Company does not believe these limitations on dividends and distributions materially impact its financial position.  EIC is subject to minimum capital and surplus requirements in certain states.  The minimum amount of capital and surplus required to satisfy regulatory requirements in these states is $15,076 as of December 31, 2018. EIC was in excess of the minimum required amounts in these states as of March 2, 2019.

The Company has recorded estimates of various assets and liabilities arising from its participation in the Medicare Part D program based on information in its claims management and enrollment systems. Significant estimates arising from its participation in this program include: (i) estimates of low-income cost subsidies, reinsurance amounts, and coverage gap discount amounts ultimately payable to CMS based on a detailed claims reconciliation that will occur in the following year; (ii) an estimate of amounts receivable from CMS under a risk-sharing feature of the Medicare Part D program design, referred to as the risk corridor and (iii) estimates for claims that have been reported and are in the process of being paid or contested and for our estimate of claims that have been incurred but have not yet been reported.

As of March 2, 2019, accounts receivable, net included $392,400 due from CMS relating to the calendar 2019 and 2018 plan years, respectively. Accrued salaries, wages and other current liabilities included $0 due to the Company's reinsurance carrier, relating to the 2019 and 2018 plan years, respectively. As of March 3, 2018, accounts receivable, net included $350,563 due from CMS and accrued salaries, wages and other current liabilities included $183,318 of EIC liabilities under certain reinsurance contracts. During calendar 2017, EIC limited its exposure to loss and recovered a portion of benefits paid by utilizing quota-share reinsurance with a commercial reinsurance company. EIC does not have a reinsurance agreement in place for its individual and most of its group prescription drug policies for calendar 2018 and calendar 2019. EIC has quota share reinsurance for certain group prescription drug policies for calendar 2018 and calendar 2019.