The PART summary rated the Federal Employees Health Benefits
integrity program as effective. Administered by OPM’s
office of the inspector general, it “made a number of
technological improvements” regarding the “data warehouse”
project by increasing storage capacity, shortening
processing time, and installing a new system security
feature to provide a platform for expanding the project
over the next several years.
It said the OIG attempted to incorporate independent
evaluation into program management by participating in a
peer review of its operation by the President’s Council
on Integrity and Efficiency — and that it established a
quality assurance team to review its functions and
operations.
The oversight for that is performed internally, but
according to the summary the OIG claims the team has enough
independence to not be influenced by program staff.
The estimated FEHB Integrity funding level for 2006 is
$13 million.
