HR 2193
Cleared committee
Requires the Office of Personnel Management to verify that family members added to federal employee health plans are eligible, audit current enrollments, and remove ineligible enrollees.
Official title: FEHB Protection Act of 2025
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House
Introduced
18-MAR-2025
Referred
18-MAR-2025
Approved by committee
25-MAR-2025
- Requires OPM to issue regulations within one year verifying qualifying life events and that each family member added to a federal employee health plan is eligible.
- Requires a three-year audit, starting one year after enactment, of covered family members, reviewing marriage certificates, birth certificates, and similar documents.
- Requires OPM to assess ineligible enrollees in fraud risk assessments and to create a process within six months for disenrolling or removing them.
- Sets annual spending caps for OPM and its Inspector General's oversight of the program, provides $80 million in fiscal 2026 for the audit, and exempts those OPM amounts from annual congressional limits.
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