1.   As it does every March, the agency revised its seasonal adjustment formula to more accurately track month-on-month changes.

2.   Ignagni said the cuts imposed by the risk adjustment formula treat HMOs unfairly and are not what Congress intended.

3.   The government also plans to implement an automatic adjustment formula to set profit margins for refiners, marketers and dealers as well as rates for haulers and pipeline operators.

4.   To more accurately monitor production trends, MITI uses a seasonal adjustment formula to smooth out the peaks and valleys in monthly output.