§8910 Studies, reports, and audits

Summary

The Office of Personnel Management must keep studying how the federal health benefits program works. It must do surveys and reports about available plans and how they perform. Contracts made under section 8902 must require carriers to give OPM the reports it needs and to let OPM and the Government Accountability Office look at carrier records. Every federal agency must keep records and give OPM needed information and certifications. OPM, working with the Department of Health and Human Services, must build a system so carriers of approved plans under sections 8903 or 8903a can identify retirees and other plan members who are eligible for benefits under part A or B of title XVIII of the Social Security Act. The goal is to make sure payments coordinated with Medicare do not exceed the legal maximums physicians may charge Medicare enrollees.