[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 84 (Thursday, May 1, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 24728-24729]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-09903]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES


National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics: Teleconference

    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), 
Full Committee Teleconference.
    Time and Date: 3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. (EDT) May 15, 2014.
    Place: Teleconference--scheduled to begin at 3:00 p.m. Eastern 
Daylight Savings Time. To participate in the teleconference, please 
use the following url http://www.ncvhs.hhs.gov/ to take you to the 
NCVHS homepage where registration information and the link to join 
the call will be available.
    Status: Open, however teleconference access limited only by 
availability of telephone ports. There will be a verbal comment 
period during the final 15 minutes of the teleconference. The public 
is also welcome to submit written comments in advance of the meeting 
to Terri Deutsch whose contact information is written below. Written 
comments received by May 13, 2014, will be included in the official 
record of the meeting.
    Purpose: 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.
    The purpose of this teleconference of the full committee of the 
NCVHS is to discuss and vote for approval three letters addressed to 
the Secretary of Health and Human Services. The matters to be 
discussed are: (1) Letter regarding the Electronic Standards for 
Public Health Information Exchange. The purpose of this letter is to 
provide observations and recommendations from the NCVHS regarding 
the current state of health informatics standards used by public 
health and population health programs; (2) A recommendation letter 
that focuses on the findings from the February 19, 2014 NCVHS 
Hearing on Prescriber Prior Authorization for Pharmacy Benefits, 
Health Plan Identifier (HPID), Electronic Fund Transfer (EFT)/
Electronic Remittance Advice (ERA), and

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Remaining Operating Rules; and (3) A letter emphasizing NCVHS's 
long-standing position on the adoption of ICD-10 code sets in the 
US.
    Contact Person for More Information: Debbie Jackson, Interim 
Executive Secretary, NCVHS, National Center for Health Statistics, 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 3311 Toledo Road, Room 
2402, Hyattsville, Maryland 20782, telephone (301) 458-4614; Written 
comments should be sent directly to Terri Deutsch, lead staff for 
the Standards Subcommittee, NCVHS, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid 
Services, Office of E-Health Standards and Services, 7500 Security 
Boulevard, Mailstop S2-26-17, Baltimore, Maryland 21244, email 
[email protected], phone (410) 786-9462.
    Program information as well as summaries of meetings and a 
roster of committee members are 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.

    Dated: April 23, 2014.
James Scanlon,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Office of the 
Assistant Secretary for Planning and, Evaluation.
[FR Doc. 2014-09903 Filed 4-30-14; 8:45 am]
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