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OPM to Gather Health Data on 8 Million Federal Workers

7/26/2026

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Office of Personnel Management (OPM) will begin collecting health data on 8 million federal employees and families on July 24.
Sixty-five insurers must give OPM names, addresses, diagnoses, prescriptions and details while OPM also requests Medicare claims for enrollees.
OPM will pseudonymize records by stripping names, addresses and SSNs yet keep IDs, which Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) and technologists Joseph Lorenzo Hall and Matt Fisher say could be reidentified.

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Office of Personnel Management (OPM) will begin collecting health data on 8 million federal employees and families on July 24.
Sixty-five insurers must give OPM names, addresses, diagnoses, prescriptions and details while OPM also requests Medicare claims for enrollees.
OPM will pseudonymize records by stripping names, addresses and SSNs yet keep IDs, which Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) and technologists Joseph Lorenzo Hall and Matt Fisher say could be reidentified.