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GAO Report: Federal Employees' Health Plans -- Premium Growth and OPM's Role in Negotiating Benefits
U.S. Government Accountability Office [GAO] Link to more items from this source
Feb. 3, 2003
37 pages. "Increasing premiums are related to the plans' higher claims expenditures. For FEHBP's three largest plans, about 70 percent of increased claims expenditures from 1998 to 2000 was due to prescription drugs and hospital outpatient care. Most of the increase in drug expenditures was due to higher plan payments per drug, while the increase in hospital outpatient care expenditures was due to higher utilization." [GAO-03-326, published Dec. 31, 2002, released Jan. 31, 2003]

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