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Federal Employees Health Benefits Program

Please use the enclosed documents to prepare your 2007 rate proposal. You must submit your proposal and the completed attachments by May 31, 2006. May 31 is the deadline required by regulations and no one can grant extensions.

See the enclosed "OPM Community Rating Guidelines - 2007" for pertinent definitions and an overall view of our community rating policy for 2007.

If you are a small carrier (see guidelines for definition), you may:

1. Elect to submit as a large carrier (in which case, we will consider you as a large carrier);
2. Elect to submit as a small carrier and
1. If your 2006 income from the Federal group will be $500,000 or more
• you must submit Attachments I, IA, IIB, and IIC, and
• complete Attachments II and IIA and keep them on file and available for OPM review; or
2. If your 2006 income from the Federal group will be less than $500,000,
• you must submit Attachments I, IIB, and IIC, and
• you do not need to complete or retain Attachments II or IIA.

If you are a large carrier (see guidelines for definition), you must complete and submit to OPM, Attachments II, IIA, IIB, and IIC.

This proposal is being e-mailed to you as a Word document. This year your proposal should be submitted electronically. Please e-mail your proposal as a Word document to Actuary@opm.gov. Please send any additional information by overnight delivery to each of the following addresses:

and

Also, please remember your first quarter enrollment report, Table 1, was due on April 15 to:

Please direct your questions about the 2007 rate submission to Sherry Simon, or Sharon Tu at (202) 606-0722, or actuary@opm.gov.

Attachment: 2007 FEHB Rate Instructions - Community-Rated Plans [272 KB]

Download this Letter as a PDF File [28 KB]

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