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OPM Wants Your FEHB Medical Claims: What the New CRS Report Says
OPMā€™s request for FEHB medical claims data would place health information for more than eight million federal employees, retirees, and family members in the hands of the agency tha...
New OPM Rule Requires Family Eligibility Proof for FEHB Every Time
A new Office of Personnel Management (OPM) rule now requires federal employees to prove a family member's eligibility every time that person is added to Federal Employees Health Be...
New FEHB Family Verification Rules for Feds
Federal employees who carry a spouse or child on their health insurance should pay close attention to a new OPM rule expanding family member eligibility verification under the Fede...
OPM Health Data and Federal Employee Privacy
Federal employees have reason to feel uneasy right now. The identity-theft protection offered after the 2015 OPM breach is beginning to expire, ten years after enrollment, even tho...
OPM Retirement Backlog: What Feds Should Do Now
Federal employees nearing retirement are facing a serious processing delay. OPMā€™s retirement backlog remains above 55,000 pending claims, more than three times higher than a year e...
OPM Medical Data Proposal Updates
A growing number of lawmakers are urging the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to fully withdraw its proposal to collect detailed medical data from federal health plans. Sixteen...
OPM Health Data Collection: Oversight or Overreach?
Federal employees are right to pause when they hear that the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is requesting large-scale health data from FEHB carriers. On paper, OPM has clear ...
Ninth Circuit Stay Decision Looms Large Over RIF Pause
Why One Court Order Holds Thousands of Careers in the Balance - Here are my answers to common questions we have received
Judge Illstonā€™s nationwide injunction has frozen every Red...
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