Yesterday, the FEHBlog attended the Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network’s (HCP LAN) summit in Washington, DC. The HCP LAN issued its annual its annual alternative payment method measurement report, which found progress in replacing fee for service payments with value based payments. Here are links to Healthcare Dive and Health Payer Intelligence articles on the summit and this report.

Defense News reports on the Senate’s efforts this week to pass necessary fiscal year 2020 appropriations bills. The upshot is the Congress is “mulling” an extension of the current continuing resolution from November 21 until February or March 2020. Federal News Network reports that the Senate appropriators do not plan to provide any fund for an OPM-GSA merger without authorizing legislation being in place. The House of Representatives is refusing to pass such authorizing legislation.

The Office of Personnel Management has announced “a new Federal Long Term Care Insurance Program (FLTCIP) plan offering: FLTCIP 3.0. The new plan and rate structure is available to applicants who apply for coverage on or after October 21, 2019. It does not impact current FLTCIP enrollee plans or premiums.  Tammy Flanagan explains the new offering here.