Checkbook Guide to Health Plans for Federal Employees

  • Insurance expert Walton Francis will answer your questions and emails about federal benefits. December 5, 2012

    December 05, 2012
  • Benefits consultant Walton Francis offers top tips for federal employees considering a new health plan. Open Season runs from Nov. 12 to Dec. 10.

    December 03, 2012
  • Walton Francis, author of the Consumer's Checkbook Guide to Federal Health Plans, will provide tips on what to look for when choosing your health benefits. November 28, 2012

    November 29, 2012
  • Federal health benefits expert Walton Francis will talk about FEHBP open season, and Federal Times reporter Sean Reilly will discuss sequestration and other issues affecting federal workers. November 14, 2012

    November 14, 2012
  • There are several ways to select your 2013 federal health plan: You can do nothing, and stay where you are. You can let your pet chimp or clever goldfish make the selection. Or, you can do a little homework and save yourself $1,000 or more next year. It's your call, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says.

    November 14, 2012
  • Benefits consultants Walton Francis and Ed Zurndorfer offer top tips for federal employees considering a new health plan. Open Season runs from Nov. 12 to Dec. 10.

    November 12, 2012
  • If you focus only on premiums next year, you could be making a $14,000 error when picking your 2012 health plan, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says.

    November 29, 2011
  • Be careful. Be very careful. The PMS season for government workers is about to spike, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says. And you know what that means.

    November 28, 2011
  • Federal News Radio Senior Correspondent Mike Causey, Colleen Murphy, executive for PlanSmartChoice, and Walton Francis, editor of the Checkbook Guide to Health Plans for Federal Employees discuss the 2011 Open Season.

    November 18, 2011
  • Anchor Amy Morris and Senior Correspondent Mike Causey welcome Colleen Murphy and Walton Francis for a Federal News Radio Discussion on the FEHBP Open Season.

    November 30, 2010
  • Senior Correspondent Mike Causey\'s column today, about the FEHBP, is must reading unless you are planning to end it all on your 50th birthday or you\'re holding a mega-million dollar lottery ticket.

    April 13, 2010
  • Could you afford to pay out as much as $27,000 in premiums and medical costs next year? If you don\'t want to you don\'t have to, provided you read Senior Correspondent Mike Causey\'s column today and follow through.

    December 01, 2009