The National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association on Thursday said the Office of Personnel Management still has not sufficiently protected federal workers and retirees as part of a plan to collect claims-level health data in an effort to root out fraud.
Last December, OPM published an information collection request that would require insurers who participate in the Federal Employee Health Benefits and Postal Service Health Benefits programs to provide monthly reports with identifiable health data on their enrollees, prompting concerns from ethicists, health care providers, employee groups and lawmakers alike.
In response to those concerns, OPM published a revised proposal last month, purporting to take steps to mask employees and retirees’ identities in the data collection. In an accompanying blog post, OPM Director Scott Kupor described how the anti-fraud effort would still protect workers’ privacy.
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