FEHB cost taxpayers about $70 billion and covered more than 8.2 million federal employees, family members, and other eligible individuals in 2024.(Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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The push also targets pharmacy benefit managers, the drug-pricing middlemen that administer prescription drug benefits for health plans and negotiate with drugmakers and pharmacies.

The FEHB program cost the government and enrollees about $70 billion in fiscal 2024 and covered more than 8.2 million federal employees, family members and other eligible individuals, according to the U.S.Government AccountabilityOffice.

“OPM is a valuable partner and leader on the Task Force.The steps taken today will protect taxpayers and our federal workforce,�

OPM is also building a data science and audit team with the agency’s inspector general to review anonymized claims data and detect fraud, waste and overbilling more proactively.

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The White House Task Force has amped up its fraud investigations, narrowing in on medical corruption.(Oliver Contreras / AFP via Getty Images)

The Government Accountability Officesaid in a July 2025report that OPM should do more to manage fraud risks in the FEHB program, citing risks including benefit card sharing, improper inducements, insufficient or fraudulent documentation, kickbacks, marketing fraud, theft of personally identifiable information, provider ineligibility and self-referrals.

The announcement marks the latestcrackdown in medical programsfollowing the launch of a nationwide probe into Medicaid.

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OPM has given orders to insurance companies handling federal employee health benefits to launch investigations into payments, pharmacy benefit oversights, and subcontractors.(Eric Thayer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

CMS directed all 50 statesto submit plans to revalidate high-risk Medicaid providers, including providers subject to less rigorous enrollment standards or operating without a National Provider Identifier in April.

Vice President JD Vance, who is leading the task force, amplified the call in May, saying during a news conference that states could lose federal funding if they fail to aggressively pursue Medicaid fraud.

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The push comes amid heightened focus on large-scale fraud cases, including Minnesota’s $250 million “Feeding Our Future” scheme, which became a national flashpoint in recent months. 

Ashley J.