MEMORANDUM
DATE: November 4, 2024
TO: Federal Personnel and Payroll System (FPPS) User Group Representatives
FROM: Christine Zertuche-Rocha, Chief, Payroll Operations Division
SUBJECT: 2024 Federal Employee Health Benefits (FEHB) Open Season and Terminating Plans
Please share this information with the Servicing Personnel Office (SPO) and all appropriate staff. This year’s open season will run from November 11, 2024, and continues through December 9, 2024. The Open Season Benefits Administration Letter (BAL) 24-401 can be found at Benefits Administration Letters (opm.gov). In this BAL and attachments, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) describes the terminating plans and plans that are reducing areas of coverage.
Employees under these plans should make a new valid health benefit plan election through Employee Express http://www.employeeexpress.gov/ or through their SPO contact during open season. The Benefits Processing Branch provided the queries on November 1, 2024, to each SPO of impacted employees. Please contact these employees to inform them that their current plan is being terminated or their coverage area is being reduced.
If these employees do not make an election during open season, the SPO will need to transfer these employees into the lowest cost provider per the BAL and our Client Interface Guide. The lowest cost provider for 2024 is the GEHA Indemnity Benefit Plan Elevate. To complete this transfer, the SPO needs to enter the most current Health Benefits Election Form, Standard Form 2809, information into FPPS under the FEHB command. This is the only way to properly build the information in FPPS and in the OPM and health benefit carrier’s databases.
If SPOs have any questions, contact Duke Dupre, Chief, Benefits Processing Branch Chief, at Duke_Dupre@ibc.doi.gov or (303)-969-7487.