{"id":998,"date":"2025-10-18T14:30:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T19:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mo\/?p=998"},"modified":"2025-10-18T14:34:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T19:34:26","slug":"2026-fehb-pshb-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mo\/2025\/10\/18\/2026-fehb-pshb-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"OPM Details 2026 Coverage Changes, Plan Dropouts for FEHB\/PSHB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OPM has spelled out more details of health insurance <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fedweek.com\/fedweek\/opm-details-coverage-changes-plan-dropouts-for-fehb-pshb-in-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>coverage changes and plan availability<\/strong><\/a> for the 2026 plan year, with several increases in the former but decreases in the latter.<\/p>\n<p>Affected enrollees will have to either elect a new plan in the\u00a0<strong>open season\u00a0November 10-December 8<\/strong> or accept enrollment in a default plan\u2014the GEHA Benefit Plan-High Option in the FEHB, and the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Service Benefit Plan \u2013 FEP Blue Focus in the PSHB.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Except for plans or options dropping out, current coverage continues in both programs unless the enrollee makes a change during the open season. The open season also applies to the FEDVIP vision-dental insurance program where coverage of continuing plans also continues by default.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/2025\/10\/2025-10-18-medical-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998","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=998"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1001,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions\/1001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998"},{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}