FY 2000
Budget Justification/Performance Plan
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U.S. Office of Personnel
Management FY 2000 |
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| RIS Goal 3 FY 1999/2000: |
Flexible, responsive, and cost-effective employee benefit policies and packages are developed by a Center for Benefits Design and Delivery. |
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RIS will combine the additional resources requested with existing staff in its policy, actuarial, and budget and financial analysis functions to build on the information developed under the FY1998 Benefits Vision Study to review new employee benefit options and develop a model to serve as the Government’s new benefits platform and will draft the legislation needed to implement the new model. |
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RIS will expand partnerships with other organizations in the benefits industry to assess the family friendliness of insurance carriers, benefits offerings and informational materials; understand trends in customer needs regarding health care and other benefits; and develop industry-wide standards for consumer information and health care quality and outcome measures. | |
| RIS has expanded on the performance measure described in the OPM Strategic Plan pertinent to the benefits vision study so that it specifies the sources of evaluations regarding the competitiveness of Federal benefits. | ||
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Respond to emerging benefits design and policy
needs. The Retirement and Insurance Service began a Benefits Vision project in 1997 to examine how the Government should design its non-salary compensation to be a competitive employer over the next 5 to 10 years. RIS completed the first step of the project, a contract study on non-salary compensation practices and future trends among non-Federal employers, in August, 1997. In 1998, RIS worked on the second step of the project, a seminar for high-level Federal human resources officials to report the results of our study, and to determine if there is consensus on adjusting the Government’s non-salary compensation programs and delivery systems. RIS addressed growing concerns about the quality of managed health care in FY 1998 by implementing the Patients Bill of Rights across the entire FEHB Program. This included publishing final regulations that prohibit health plans from imposing a "gag rule" limiting the disclosures physicians may make to patients regarding treatment options. |
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Organizations outside of OPM recognize RIS’
leadership in the benefits industry OPM’s leadership in the health insurance marketplace has been recognized in a number of forums. The Agency is especially proud of the special award received from the Small Business Administration for efforts to promote the interests of small and disadvantaged businesses in the FEHB Program. |
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External studies indicate federal employee benefits are
competitive with those offered in the private sector. Studies published after FY 2000 by outside observers, consultants and other organizations (i.e., the Hay Group) indicate that Federal benefits are competitive with those available from other large employers. |
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Results from OPM Customer Satisfaction Survey indicate that OPM is meeting the agencies’ policy needs in the area of earned employee benefits. | |
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