{"id":1354,"date":"2026-04-25T23:42:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T04:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mo\/?p=1354"},"modified":"2026-04-25T23:42:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T04:42:19","slug":"opm-collection-of-personal-health-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mo\/2026\/04\/25\/opm-collection-of-personal-health-data\/","title":{"rendered":"OPM Collection of Personal Health Data"},"content":{"rendered":"

NARFE is urging Congress to request transparency, specificity, and guaranteed protections from OPM regarding FEHB\/ PSHB collected health data. President William Shackelford issued a statement in response to the notice<\/strong><\/a>, noting that OPM may have legitimate reasons for obtaining the information, but highlighting the lack of adequate, articulated reasoning. President Shackelford also advised that OPM should only seek personally de-identified information to protect employees.<\/p>\n

NARFE is now asking our members to reach out to your members of Congress today and urge them to address these concerns with OPM regarding the collection of health data<\/strong><\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) released a notice that it intends to collect data from Federal Employee Health Benefit (FEHB) and Postal Service Health Benefit (PSHB) plan carriers on service utilization and cost, including medical and pharmacy claims, as well as provider information. There is a lack of adequate explanation on why the information is needed, how it will be used, how it will be secured, and what safeguards will be implemented to protect enrollees\u2019 private data from its employer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-1354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advocacy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/2026\/04\/graphic-medical-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1354"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1357,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions\/1357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1354"},{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=1354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}