Tomorrow is opening day for the Federal Benefits Open Season, and federal employees will have a holiday to think things over. As the FEHBlog has noted, OPM FEHB plan comparison tool has been running at least since last weekend and the Consumers' Checkbook's FEHB plan comparison tool geared up for 2019 this weekend. OPM's tool is publicly available. Consumers Checkbook charges a fee for its tool although many federal agencies and the Postal Service offer the tool to their employees at no cost.
Federal News Network also offers a few words of wisdom to folks who are eligible for the Open Season. The FEHBlog noticed today that OPM is updating its Facebook page more frequently than the news section its own website.
The current FEHB Open Season will end "at 11:59pm, per the location of your electronic enrollment system, on Monday December 10, 2018."
Congress returns to Washington DC this week.
While it comes as no surprise to the FEHBlog, Modern Healthcare reports on early successes for association health plans which the Trump Administration made available earlier this year so that small employers can opt for coverage under the ACA's more flexible, but not too flexible rules for large employers. One of those early successes is a self-funded association health plan created by the Land O Lakes farm cooperative (yes the same company that sells butter.) The Land O Lakes association health plan which Minnesota law authorized in 2017 has been extended to Nebraska under the Trump Administration rule.
Also last week, the Leapfrog Group released its Fall 2018 hospital patient safety grades.
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