{"id":36,"date":"2017-10-26T19:34:44","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T02:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swcalretirees.org\/union\/?p=36"},"modified":"2017-10-26T19:34:44","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T02:34:44","slug":"2017-health-plan-open-season-and-2018-rates-from-opm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swcalretirees.org\/union\/reports\/2017-health-plan-open-season-and-2018-rates-from-opm\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 Health Plan Open Season and 2018 Rates From OPM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health Benefit Open Season &#8211; Rates for Postal And Non Postal (Retirees) are attached.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swcalretirees.org\/union\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/postal-rates-hmo.pdf\">postal-rates-hmo<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swcalretirees.org\/union\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/postal-rates-ffs-1.pdf\">postal-rates-ffs-1<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swcalretirees.org\/union\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/non-postal-rates-hmo-1.pdf\">non-postal-rates-hmo-1<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swcalretirees.org\/union\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/non-postal-rates-ffs-1.pdf\">non-postal-rates-ffs-1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From: &#8220;OPM Open Season&#8221; &lt;<a href=\"mailto:openseason@retireefehb.opm.gov\">openseason@retireefehb.opm.gov<\/a>&gt;<br \/>\nDate: October 26, 2017 at 8:56:51 AM PDT<br \/>\nSubject: Important Federal Benefits Open Season Information (RI 74-4)<br \/>\nReply-To: <a href=\"mailto:openseason@retireefehb.opm.gov\">openseason@retireefehb.opm.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>A New Day for the Civil Service Federal Benefits Open Season<\/p>\n<p>(Federal Employees Health Benefits and Federal Employees Dental &amp; Vision Insurance Programs)<br \/>\n<em>November 13, 2017 through December 11, 2017<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is the only notification you will receive regarding Open Season from OPM<\/p>\n<p>If you are satisfied with your current health plan, you do not need to do anything<\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 441px;\" width=\"555\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">It&#8217;s quick and easy to request health benefit changes and plan information.- Go to Open Season Online at <a href=\"https:\/\/retireefehb.opm.gov\">https:\/\/retireefehb.opm.gov<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">&#8211; Call Open Season Express at 1-800-332-9798<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Write to us at:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>FEHB Open Season Processing Center<\/p>\n<p>P.O. Box 5000 Lawrence,<\/p>\n<p>KS 66046-0500<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>For General Open Season information, click the above link to use Live Help or send a secure webmail message.<\/p>\n<p>For information on comparing health plans visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opm.gov\/healthcare-insurance\/healthcare\/plan-information\/compare-plans\">http:\/\/www.opm.gov\/healthcare-insurance\/healthcare\/plan-information\/compare-plans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information regarding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act&#8217;s requirement visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irs.gov\/uac\/Questions-and-Answers-on-the-Individual-Shared-Responsibility-Provision\">www.irs.gov\/uac\/Questions-and-Answers-on-the-Individual-Shared-Responsibility-Provision<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For information on the Federal Employees Dental &amp; Vision Insurance Program (FEDVIP) visit the secure enrollment website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benefeds.com\">www.benefeds.com<\/a> or call 1-877-888-3337, TTY 1-877-889-5680.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Open Season or health care reform legislation, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opm.gov\/insure\">www.opm.gov\/insure<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For information on Medicare, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medicare.gov\">www.medicare.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is the only notification you will receive unless you request additional information be mailed to you.<\/p>\n<p>If you are having trouble reading this email you may copy and paste the following link into a web browser&#8217;s address bar: <a href=\"https:\/\/retireefehb.opm.gov\">https:\/\/retireefehb.opm.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please do not reply to this email. The Office of Personnel Management will not respond as it is not a monitored mailbox.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>United States Office of Personnel Management<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health Benefit Open Season &#8211; Rates for Postal And Non Postal (Retirees) are attached. postal-rates-hmo postal-rates-ffs-1 non-postal-rates-hmo-1 non-postal-rates-ffs-1 From: &#8220;OPM Open Season&#8221; &lt;openseason@retireefehb.opm.gov&gt; Date: October 26, 2017 at 8:56:51 AM PDT Subject: Important Federal Benefits Open Season Information (RI 74-4) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/swcalretirees.org\/union\/reports\/2017-health-plan-open-season-and-2018-rates-from-opm\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swcalretirees.org\/union\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swcalretirees.org\/union\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swcalretirees.org\/union\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swcalretirees.org\/union\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swcalretirees.org\/union\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swcalretirees.org\/union\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41,"href":"https:\/\/swcalretirees.org\/union\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swcalretirees.org\/union\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swcalretirees.org\/union\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swcalretirees.org\/union\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}