United States 

Office of 

Personnel Management 

The Federal Government’s Human Resources Agency

Retirement and Insurance Service 

Benefits Administration Letter 

Number: 00-406 Date: November 2, 2000 

Subject: 2000 Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program: Significant Plan 

Changes – Part 2 

 

PURPOSE 

This letter transmits additional plan changes affecting certain plans during the upcoming FEHB 

Open Season. Please note that some of these events will require action on the part of agencies 

and enrollees. Some of these changes may not appear in the 2001 FEHB Guide because we 

received them after the guide was printed. 

You must notify your employees of these additional plan changes so that they may make 

informed open season elections. Some employees still may not be aware of the need to change 

plans during open season. Therefore, we encourage you to be liberal in accepting belated open 

season changes from employees enrolled in terminating plans or enrollment codes. 

Table 1: Plans Dropping Out of the FEHB Program for 2001 

Table 2: Plans Reducing Their Service Areas Without Terminating an Enrollment Code 

Table 3: Plan Mergers 

Table 4: Plan Name Changes 

Table 5: Enrollment Code Changes 

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Civil Service Federal Employees Federal Employees Federal Employees 

Retirement Group Life Health Benefits Retirement 

 System Insurance Program System
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION 

The FEHB Guides and plan brochures will be available on our web site on November 1, 2000. 

The FEHB web site is updated daily to reflect the most current information. We encourage you 

and your employees to visit the web site at www.opm.gov/insure for the most up to date 

information. 

 

 Abby L. Block, Chief 

 Insurance Policy 

 and Information Division 

Attachment 
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TABLE 1 

PLANS DROPPING OUT OF FEHB FOR 2001

Employees in these plans who do not change health plans during open season will not have 

health benefits for 2001. 

State Plan Name Code 

Pennsylvania First Priority Health C8 

Wisconsin * Family Health Plan WH 

* Please refer to BAL 00-219 for important information on this plan 

TABLE 2 

PLANS REDUCING THEIR SERVICE AREAS 

WITHOUT TERMINATING AN ENROLLMENT CODE 

Enrollees in the area being dropped who do not change health plans during open season, 

will have to travel to their plan’s remaining service area to obtain medical care in order to 

receive full benefits from the plan in 2001. 

State Plan Name Code Area Dropped 

California CIGNA HealthCare 

California 

9T Monterey County 

Colorado PacifiCare of Colorado D6 Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Fremont, 

Grand, Huerfano, Kiowa, Kit Carson, 

Lake, La Plata, Lincoln, Logan, Otero, 

Phillips, Pueblo, Sedgwick, Summit, 

Washington, Yuma 

Indiana M-Plan IN Vigo, Clay, Greene, Owen, Parke, 

Vermillion, and Sullivan counties 
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Table 2 Continued: Plans Reducing Their Service Areas Without Terminating an 

Enrollment Code 

Indiana Maxicare Indiana GK Evansville area including the entire 

counties of Perry, Posey, Spencer, and 

Vanderburgh 

Dubois (Zip codes 47532, 47541-47, and 

47575 only) 

Gibson (Zip codes 47639 and 47647 only) 

 

Pike (Zip codes 47584-85 and 47590 

only) 

Warwick (Zip codes 47601, 47610, 

47613-14, 47619, 47629-30, and 47637 

only) 

Washington Aetna U.S. Healthcare 8J Thurston and Lewis counties 

Washington PacifiCare of Washington WB Cowlitz and Lewis counties 

TABLE 3 

PLAN MERGERS 

Enrollees in plans that merge will be transferred automatically to the surviving plan unless 

they choose a different plan during open season. 

State Merging Plans Code Surviving Plans Code 

District of 

Columbia 

Prudential HealthCare HMO 

Aetna U.S. Healthcare 

JB 

JN 

Aetna U.S. Healthcare 

(High Option) 

JN 

North Carolina 

North Carolina 

Generations Family Health Plan 

PARTNERS National Health Plan 

8B 

EQ

PARTNERS National 

Health Plan 

EQ 

Virginia Prudential HealthCare HMO 

Aetna U.S. Healthcare 

JB 

JN 

Aetna U.S. Healthcare 

(High Option) 

JN 
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TABLE 4 

PLAN NAME CHANGES 

State Plan Name (Old) Code Plan Name (New) 

New Mexico Qualmed Plans for Health PX Cimarron Health Plan 

New Jersey Qualmed Plans for Health 27 PHS Health Plans 

Pennsylvania Qualmed Plans for Health 27, 2K PHS Health Plans 

Wisconsin Compcare Health Services 69, 6X Compcare Blue 

TABLE 5 

ENROLLMENT CODE CHANGE 

You must transfer enrollees in this plan to the new code unless they choose a different plan 

during open season. 

State Plan Name Code (Old) Code (New) 

Colorado Rocky Mountain HMO 88 XJ