Federal employees health benefits program. 3. Utilization of hospital services.

Increasing health insurance coverage through an extended Federal Employees Health Benefits Program.

The Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) could be combined with health insurance tax credits to extend coverage to the uninsured. An extended FEHBP, or "E-FEHBP," would be open to all individuals who were not covered through work or public programs and who also were eligible for the tax credits on the basis of income. E-FEHBP also would be open to employees of very small firms, reg...

The Federal Employees Health Benefits program: what lessons can it offer policymakers?

How does the employer contribution for the federal employees health benefits program influence plan selection?

Market reform of health insurance is proposed to increase coverage and reduce growth in spending by providing an incentive to choose low-cost plans. However, having a choice of plans could result in risk segmentation. Risk-adjusted payments have been proposed to address risk segmentation but are criticized as ineffective. An alternative to risk adjustment is to subsidize premiums, as in the Fed...

Medicare and Federal Employees Health Benefits Programs: Their Coordination

FEDER-41, EMPLOYEES and annuitants and their dependents who are aged 65 and over are potential beneficiaries of two Federal health insurance programs-health insurance for the aged (Medicare) and lie&h insurance for active and retired Federal employees. The two programs are in considerable measure duplicatory and most Federal employees and nnnuitnnts aged 65 and over are unable to take full adva...

Self-reported utilization of preventive health services by retired employees age 65 and older.

OBJECTIVES Increased utilization of preventive services among the aging has been associated with improved health status and decreased medical costs. We sought to examine the use of the Health Risk Appraisal (HRA) in benchmarking compliance and characterizing those retired employees who met preventive service guidelines. DESIGN A retrospective cohort study of retired employees age 65 and older...