[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 72 (Thursday, April 14, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 20989]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-9084]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES


National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics: Meeting

    Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, the Department of 
Health and Human Services (HHS) announces the Following Advisory 
Committee Meeting.

    Name: National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS); 
Standards Subcommittee.
    Time and Date: April 27, 2011, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
    Place: Marriott Washington Hotel, 1221 22nd Street, NW (Between 
M & N Sts), Washington, DC 20037, Phone: 202-872-1500, Fax: 202-872-
1424.
    Status: Open.
    Purpose: The purpose of this upcoming meeting of the 
Subcommittee on Standards is to receive (1) industry input on the 
acknowledgements transaction as a standard to be adopted under the 
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) 
and (2) commentary and proposals pertaining to the maintenance and 
modification of standards and operating rules adopted under the 
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010. The 
Subcommittee will hear testimony with proposals and recommendations 
from individual, organizational and association subject matter 
experts.
    The NCVHS has been named in the Patient Protection and 
Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 to review and make recommendations 
on several operating rules and standards related to HIPAA 
transactions. This meeting will support these activities in the 
development of a set of recommendations for the Secretary, as 
required by Sec.  1104 of the ACA. Text of the ACA can be found at 
http://www.whitehouse.gov/healthreform.
    Contact Person for More Information: Substantive program 
information as well as summaries of meetings and a roster of 
committee members may be obtained from Lorraine Doo, lead staff for 
the Standards Subcommittee, NCVHS, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid 
Services, Office of E-Health Standards and Services, 7500 Security 
Boulevard, Baltimore, Maryland, 21244, telephone (410) 786-6597 or 
Marjorie S. Greenberg, Executive Secretary, NCVHS, National Center 
for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 
3311 Toledo Road, Room 2402, Hyattsville, Maryland 20782, telephone 
(301) 458-4245. Information also is available on the NCVHS home page 
of the HHS Web site: http://www.ncvhs.hhs.gov/, where further 
information including an agenda will be posted when available. 
Persons interested in providing oral or written testimony during the 
April 27th hearing should contact Lorraine Doo at 
[email protected].
    Should you require reasonable accommodation, please contact the 
CDC Office of Equal Employment Opportunity on (301) 458-4EEO (4336) 
as soon as possible.

    Dated: April 6, 2011.
James Scanlon,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation Science and Data 
Policy, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.
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