[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 64 (Monday, April 4, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18555-18556]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-7903]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services


Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of 
Authority

    Part F of the Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations 
of Authority for the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers 
for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), (Federal Register, Vol. 75, No. 
56, pp. 14178, dated Wednesday, March 24, 2010) is amended to reflect 
updates to the functions for the Center for Strategic Planning (FCK).
    Part F. is described below:
     Section FC. 20. (Functions) reads as follows:

Center for Strategic Planning (FCK)

     Provide senior leadership over the strategic planning 
process and the development of CMS strategic goals, metrics, and plans.
     Direct the development of financial and health care trend 
analysis and management insight report to inform senior CMS leadership 
strategic decision making.
     Set priorities for CSP direction, budget, personnel, and 
staff development.
     Translate statistical data into information useful to 
agency leadership.
     Provide leadership to the development of performance 
dashboards and databases for key agency initiatives.
     Provide leadership in maintaining and ensuring quality of 
data resources needed for testing and evaluating demonstrations and 
innovations.
     Direct the development of enterprise business plans, 
process requirement for CMS post ACA

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administrative, provider, and customer services process.
     Facilitate plans for IT Integration of data resources and 
data services.
     Coordinate policy analysis, development and execution for 
CMS.
     Build and maintain agency capacity to perform analysis of 
regional variation in the quality and cost of care.
     Conduct and manage surveys to capture information about 
beneficiary populations that our programs serve that is not available 
in the administrative data. This includes the Medicare Current 
Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) and the Medicare Health Outcomes Survey 
(HOS).
     Conduct and manage the Research Data Assistance Center 
(RESDAC), Research Data Distribution Center (RDDC) and Chronic 
Condition Warehouse (CCW) activities.
     Operationalize research-usable files for Medicare, 
Medicaid, and CHIP administrative data.

    Dated: March 24, 2011.
Marilyn Tavenner,
Principal Deputy Administrator and Chief Operating Officer, Centers for 
Medicare & Medicaid Services.
[FR Doc. 2011-7903 Filed 4-1-11; 8:45 am]
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