Showing posts with label Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program. Show all posts

Saturday, October 28, 2023

AARP | Do retired federal employees have to enroll in Medicare?

Article Title: AARP | Do retired federal employees have to enroll in Medicare?
Snippet of Article: "I have federal retiree health insurance. Do I have to sign up for Medicare? ...retired federal employees covered under the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) program aren’t required to enroll in Medicare. Your federal retiree coverage can continue as your primary coverage if you’ve been continuously insured for five years immediately before departing. This isn’t the case for other types of retiree health insurance. Typically, health insurance coverage from a former employer, rather than a current employer, becomes secondary to Medicare when you turn 65...."


Source: www.aarp.org

[tag] Federal Employee News, Federal Civil Service, Retiree Health Insurance, Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program, [/tag]

OPM | What are the benefits of being a federal employee?

Article Title: OPM | What are the benefits of being a federal employee?
Snippet of Article: "...health, dental, vision, life, and long term care insurance. ..."


Source: www.opm.gov

[tag] health, dental, vision, life, long term care insurance, [/tag]

Thursday, August 31, 2017

Q and A for federal workers: Open season choices

Article Title: Q and A for federal workers: Open season choices
Snippet of Article: "...From Nov. 13 to Dec. 11, federal employees can enroll in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program for 2018, and those already enrolled can change plans, change coverage options (between self-only and self-and-family, for example) or change levels of coverage within plans that have more than one level. Retirees generally cannot join but can make the other types of changes if they have remained enrolled continuously..."


Source: www.washingtonpost.com

[tag] Federal Employee News, Federal Civil Service, [/tag]

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Are you next? Postal Service wants to pull employees out of the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program and...

Article Title: USPS Plan to Pull Out of Fed Health Benefits Could Cost Postal Workers
Snippet of Article: "...While most non-postal FEHB enrollees would likely not be affected by USPS’ withdrawal from the program, about 29,000 federal employees would have to select a new health plan, according to GAO, as some plans that primarily offer services to USPS workers would drop out of FEHB. ..."


Source: www.govexec.com

[tag]Federal,Government,Military,Retiree, [/tag]

Monday, December 31, 2012

Feds earn more, but posties get health coverage for less

Article Title: Health premiums: It pays to go postal
Snippet of Article: "...For most federal workers, the government picks up about 70 percent of the total premium. What they pay every two weeks is only a portion of the total tab. But in the USPS, the government pays a lot more for the health needs of its workers. Once retired, postal workers pay the same (higher) share of premiums as nonpostal workers. ..."


Source: www.federalnewsradio.com

[tag]Federal,Government,Military,Retiree, [/tag]

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Postal Service wants provide employees with 'less generous' health plans

Article Title: Postmaster Donahoe to beg Congress for Postal Service’s life
Snippet of Article: "...wants permission to pull his 563,000 employees from the health and retirement plans that cover federal employees so the USPS can provide less generous programs...."


Source: www.washingtonpost.com

[tag]Federal,Government,Military,Retiree, Postal [/tag]

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

2011 Open Season for Health Benefits, Dental and Vision Insurance

Federal Employee Open Season

Article Title: 2011 Open Season for Health Benefits, Dental and Vision Insurance Snippet of Article:

"The Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program has important features, including a wide choice of health plans and competitive benefit packages
as well as no pre-existing condition limitations or waiting periods. Now, for 2011, we have eliminated enrollee cost sharing for preventive care services,
added incentives for tobacco cessation, and, in accordance with the Affordable Care Act, added coverage for dependents up to age 26. Even with these
new benefits, premiums will rise less this year than they did last year." John Berry Director, U. S. Office of Personnel Management * The U. S. Office of
Personnel Management (OPM) has announced that this year's open season for health benefits, dental and vision insurance, and Flexible Spending
Accounts will run from November 8 through December 13, 2010. This open season will give federal employees and retirees the opportunity to change their
health-care coverage and employees who are not enrolled, but are eligible to participate, the opportunity to elect coverage. OPM also announced the use of
a new claims database that will make it easier to reduce the growth in health care costs. * Each year, OPM enters into annual negotiations with each FEHB
carrier, historically enabling the program to hold premium increases below industry averages and secure good benefits value for enrollees and their
families. * Premiums for the 2011 FEHB Program will rise by an average 7.2 percent for the enrollee share of premiums. This increase is below last year's
premium increase of 8.8 percent and lower than rate hikes predicted for large, employer-sponsored health programs by benefit consultants such as Aon,
Milliman, and Price Waterhouse Coopers, which are estimating 2011 premium increases between 8.9 percent and 10.5 percent. * In January 2011, there will
be 207 health plan options in the FEHB Program. * OPM will soon launch a new Health Claims Data Warehouse which will become a useful tool for analyzing
health services data from the FEHB plans. The warehouse will allow OPM to better understand the health of federal employees, as well as the cost and
quality of care they receive. The warehouse will give OPM the ability to manage the program so that employees and tax-payers get the best value.

Source: www.opm.gov

[tag]Federal,Government,Military,Retiree, [/tag]