{"id":2645,"date":"2026-04-18T08:57:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T12:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/?p=2645"},"modified":"2026-04-23T09:03:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T13:03:18","slug":"opm-plan-to-access-to-medical-records-gets-pushback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/2026\/04\/18\/opm-plan-to-access-to-medical-records-gets-pushback\/","title":{"rendered":"OPM Plan to Access to Medical Records Gets Pushback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fedweek.com\/fedweek\/plan-for-opm-access-to-medical-records-begins-to-draw-opposition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Article by the FEDweek Staff, April 15, 2026<\/strong><\/a>. The issue is that OPM has requested that insurance companies provide it with personal information about Federal Employees\u2019 and Retirees\u2019 medical records.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe AFGE union and the NARFE organization have opened the opposition to the Trump administration plan to gain access to detailed medical records on those covered by the FEHB\/PSHB programs, saying OPM has not justified a need for information on an individual\u2019s treatments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is an issue all Federal Employees and Retirees should learn more about before all their medical records are provided to OPM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NARFE organization have opened the opposition to the Trump administration plan to gain access to detailed medical records on those covered by the FEHB\/PSHB programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-2645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/139\/2026\/04\/graphic-opm-news.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2646,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645\/revisions\/2646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2645"},{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=2645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}