{"id":249,"date":"2025-10-10T05:19:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T09:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1159\/?p=249"},"modified":"2026-01-19T16:13:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T21:13:43","slug":"open-season-malave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1159\/2025\/10\/10\/open-season-malave\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Season with Jennifer Malave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was enrollment for health insurance again. BC\/BS representative Jennifer Malave from Blue Cross\/Blue Shield returned to outline what\u2019s available for 2025 in the FEHB and PSHB programs: recap familiar choices, highlighted new benefits, identified new rules and procedures, and emphasized the value in reviewing one\u2019s selections every year. Jennifer has been dedicated to servicing federal employees and has shared valuable information that has helped members with annual choices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOpen Season\u201d for the United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM) federal benefits programs runs from <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">November 10 through December 9, 2025.\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0 We look forward to this very <a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1159\/meetings-events\/meetings\/\"><strong>informative presentation<\/strong><\/a> each year.\u00a0 Jennifer Malave presented on November 5.\u00a0 This was <strong data-start=\"702\" data-end=\"723\">great opportunity<\/strong> to get clear, up-to-date guidance from a knowledgeable BC\/BS representative \u2014 whether you\u2019re reviewing your current plan or thinking about changes for the new plan year.\u00a0 Jennifer covered key Open Season dates and deadlines, plan changes for the upcoming year, how to compare plan options, and tips to maximize your benefits, followed by a Q&amp;A session.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NARFE Chapter 1159, hosted Jennifer Malave from Blue Cross who discussed changes in medical coverage for 2026. She presented changes in the Federal Employees Health Benefit Plan for all plans, not exclusive to Blue Cross.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meetings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1159\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/138\/2025\/11\/2025-11-05-Jennifer-Malave-from-CareFirst-BlueCross-BlueShield-scaled-e1763122709338.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1159\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1159\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1159\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1159\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1159\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1159\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1159\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1159\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1159\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1159\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1159\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1159\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}