---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 C.F.R. § 457.420"
title: "42"
number: "457.420"
heading: "Benchmark health benefits coverage."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/42/457.420"
---

# §457.420. Benchmark health benefits coverage.


Benchmark coverage is health benefits coverage that is substantially equal to the health benefits coverage in one of the following benefit plans:

- (a) **Federal Employees Health Benefit Plan (FEHBP).** The standard Blue Cross/Blue Shield preferred provider option service benefit plan that is described in, and offered to Federal employees under, [5 U.S.C. 8903(1)](/usc/5/8903.md?p=1).
- (b) **State employee plan.** A health benefits plan that is offered and generally available to State employees in the State.
- (c) **Health maintenance organization (HMO) plan.** A health insurance coverage plan that is offered through an HMO (as defined in section 2791(b)(3) of the Public Health Service Act) and has the largest insured commercial, non-Medicaid enrollment in the State.

## Notes

### Source

Source: 66 FR 2678, Jan. 11, 2001, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 1302.

### Source

Source: 65 FR 33622, May 24, 2000, unless otherwise noted.