Federal Benefits Open Season Guide

GovernmentExecutive.com's guide to help federal managers, employees and their families navigate the open season for health, dental, vision and flexible spending account benefits. Open season runs from Nov. 12 to Dec. 10.

In The News

• Retirement Planning: So Many Choices, So Little Time (11/02/07)
• Pay and Benefits Watch: Consumer-Driven Care (10/25/07)
• Clinton's health plan unlikely to affect feds' premiums (10/12/07)
• Part B Or Not Part B? (09/28/07)
• Unions call on OPM to rein in health care premiums (09/14/07)
• Federal health premiums to rise slightly in 2008 (09/13/07)
• Pay and Benefits Watch: Cost Control (09/06/07)
• Pay and Benefits Watch: Continuing Coverage (08/16/07)
• Lawmakers question government contribution to health premiums (08/02/07)
• Pay and Benefits Watch: Trials and Tribulations (07/05/07)
• Health Savings Shortfalls (06/28/07)
• Auditors uncover fraud in federal benefit programs (06/18/07)
• Pay and Benefits Watch: Model for Health Coverage (05/24/07)
• Lawmakers hear concerns on potential health premium increases (05/21/07)
• House leader to seek boost in health premium subsidy (02/27/07)
• State Department may switch to Pentagon's health IT system (02/14/07)
• Administration seeks to trim retiree health subsidies (02/05/07)
• Medicare subsidy could have softened rise in health premiums (01/22/07)

2008 FEHBP Premiums

• Non-Postal Rates
• Postal Rates

FEHBP Information

• OPM's FEHBP Web site
• Download FEHBP Guides from OPM
• Health insurance glossary
• FEHBP Plan Comparisons

Dental and Vision Benefit Information

• General Information on Dental and Vision Program
• Brochures on Dental and Vision Plans

Flexible Spending Account Information

• OPM's FSAFEDS site

Health Plan Tools, Calculators and Report Cards

• National Committee for Quality Assurance, a non-profit organization that rates health insurance programs for consumers.
• Consumer's Checkbook Guide to Health Plans for Federal Employees. Contains ratings of plans for likely out of pocket costs, ratings of HMO and Fee-for-Service plans for customer satisfaction based on independently collected survey data, and much more. Users must pay a fee to access ratings.
• Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, a non-profit that evaluates and accredits nearly 18,000 health care organizations and programs in the United States.
• Healthfinder, a research site for health information.