Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority, 46300-46301 [E8-18177]
Download as PDF
<![CDATA[
46300
Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 154 / Friday, August 8, 2008 / Notices
Agency for Toxic Substances and
Disease Registry.
Daniel Riedford,
Acting Director, Management Analysis and
Services Office, Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention.
[FR Doc. E8–18284 Filed 8–7–08; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4163–18–P
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
pwalker on PROD1PC71 with NOTICES
Statement of Organization, Functions,
and Delegations of Authority
Part C (Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention) of the Statement of
Organization, Functions, and
Delegations of Authority of the
Department of Health and Human
Services (45 FR 67772–76, dated
October 14, 1980, and corrected at 45 FR
69296, October 20, 1980, as amended
most recently at 73 FR 35140, dated
June 20, 2008) is amended to reflect the
reorganization of the Office of the
Director, Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention.
Section C–B, Organization and
Functions, is hereby amended as
follows: Delete in their entirety the titles
and functional statements for the Office
of Strategy and Innovation (CAM) and
the Office of Chief of Public Health
Practice (CAR) and insert the following:
Office of Strategy and Innovation
(CAM). The Office of Strategy and
Innovation (OSI) serves as the focal
point for accelerating the health impact
of CDC’s work within and beyond CDC’s
programs. In carrying out its mission,
OSI: (1) Leads CDC’s efforts to develop,
monitor, evaluate, and advance agency
strategic direction, planning, and
priorities; (2) fosters strategic excellence
and innovation across the agency; (3)
provides superior decision support to
CDC’s executive leadership; (4) leads
the development of health in all
policies; (5) promotes the health, safety,
and quality of life of women; and (6)
improves the health of the public
through law.
Office of the Director (CAM1). (1)
Develops, monitors, and advances
CDC’s strategic direction, planning, and
priorities; (2) provides leadership and
vision for formulating and evaluating
policy; (3) fosters strategic excellence
and innovation across the agency; (4)
applies knowledge management tools
and decision support systems in
allocation of resources and improves
agency decision-making; (5)
communicates key messages to CDC
VerDate Aug<31>2005
17:25 Aug 07, 2008
Jkt 214001
employees and partners about CDC’s
strategic direction, planning, and
priorities; and (6) works directly with
the strategy and innovation officers
within the coordinating centers to
develop, monitor, and advance CDC
strategic direction and priorities and
institutionalize organizational change,
improvement, and accountability.
Office of Women’s Health (CAM12).
The Office of Women’s Health (OWH)
aims to promote and improve the
health, safety, and quality of life of
women. As a leader for women’s health
issues at CDC, the Office of Women’s
Health: (1) Advises the CDC Director on
matters relating to women’s health
research, programs, and strategies; (2)
promotes the health and well-being of
women; (3) communicates health
information, research findings, and
prevention strategies to a diverse group
of providers, consumers, and
organizations; (4) advances sound
scientific knowledge for public health
action, promotes the role of prevention,
and works to improve the
understanding of women’s health
priorities; (5) fosters partnerships and
collaborations within CDC and with
other public and private organizations,
agencies, institutions, and others to
improve the health and safety of
women; (6) publishes newsletters and
other documents that highlight
prevention programs, research findings,
publications, health campaigns, health
promotion strategies, and other
information available at CDC; (7) leads
CDC Women’s Health Committee by
facilitating and coordinating agencywide efforts and enhancing channels for
communication and cooperation; (8)
supports the development of future
women’s health and public health
professionals through various training
and student positions within the office;
(9) prepares agency reports, briefing
documents, and other materials
addressing women’s health issues; (10)
stimulates and supports prevention
research, programs, and other activities
through funding; (11) represents the
agencies at meetings, committees,
workgroups, conferences, and briefings;
(12) serves as liaison for women’s health
between CDC and other agencies and
organizations; (13) develops
opportunities for, promotes, and
supports the agency as a resource for
women’s health issues; and (14)
provides assistance to state and local
programs on women’s health issues.
Public Health Law Program (CAM13).
The mission of the Public Health Law
Program is to improve the health of the
public through law. The program: (1)
Provides technical assistance to CDC
centers and to extramural partners in
PO 00000
Frm 00066
Fmt 4703
Sfmt 4703
developing their legal preparedness to
address the full spectrum of health
protection goals; (2) collaborates with
CDC and extramural partners in
developing tools for use in assessing
and improving the public health legal
preparedness of the health system; (3)
strengthens the competencies of
practitioners in public health,
emergency management, law, and other
sectors to apply law to improve public
health; (4) supports and conducts
applied research in public health law
and translates findings into practice; (5)
provides consultation and analysis in
public health law to CDC programs and
extramural constituents; (6) establishes
partnerships among CDC and other
organizations active in public health
law and assists in strengthening their
public health law capacity and
expertise; and (7) develops and
disseminates authoritative information
on public health law and public health
law best practices to practitioners and
policy makers.
Office of Chief of Public Health
Practice (CAR). The Office of Chief of
Public Health Practice (OCPHP) serves
as the advocate, guardian, promoter, and
conscience of public health practice
throughout CDC and in the larger public
health community; ensures coordination
and synergy of CDC’s scientific and
practice activities; and promotes and
protects the public’s health through
science-based, practice-relevant
standards, policies, and legal tools. To
carry out its mission, OCPHP: (1)
Establishes robust partnerships among
CDC programs, public health
practitioners and key sectors, including
elected officials, the legal community,
and law enforcement and emergency
response organizations; (2) establishes a
functional area focused specifically on
standards and improvement in practice
among state and local public health
systems; (3) advances the development
and implementation of a national
agency accreditation system; (4) relates
relevant research and policy analysis to
public health practice; (5) monitors and
anticipates public health practice trends
and issues; and (6) coordinates and
addresses cross-cutting issues related to
public health practice within CDC; and
(7) develops, monitors and advances
agency-wide goals for improving health
equity, fostering strategic excellence and
innovation across CDC, and
organizational development and the
transition process.
E:\FR\FM\08AUN1.SGM
08AUN1
Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 154 / Friday, August 8, 2008 / Notices
Dated: July 31, 2008.
William H. Gimson,
Chief Operating Officer, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. E8–18177 Filed 8–7–08; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4160–18–M
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services
[Document Identifier: CMS–R–138, CMS–
10147, CMS–10146, CMS–10064, and CMS–
10225]
pwalker on PROD1PC71 with NOTICES
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request
Agency: Centers for Medicare &
Medicaid Services, HHS.
In compliance with the requirement
of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services (CMS), Department of Health
and Human Services, is publishing the
following summary of proposed
collections for public comment.
Interested persons are invited to send
comments regarding this burden
estimate or any other aspect of this
collection of information, including any
of the following subjects: (1) The
necessity and utility of the proposed
information collection for the proper
performance of the Agency’s function;
(2) the accuracy of the estimated
burden; (3) ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and (4) the use of
automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology to
minimize the information collection
burden.
1. Type of Information Collection
Request: Extension of a currently
approved collection; Title of
Information Collection: Medicare
Geographic Classification Review Board
(MGCRB) Procedures and Criteria and
Supporting Regulations in 42 CFR,
Section 412.256 & 412.230; Use: Section
1886(d)(10) of the Social Security Act
established the MGCRB, an entity that
has the authority to accept short-term
hospital inpatient prospective payment
system (IPPS) hospital applications
requesting geographic reclassification
for wage index or standardized payment
amounts and to issue decisions on these
requests. Since it is important to ensure
the accuracy of the MGCRB decisions
and remain apprised of potential
payment impacts, the regulations note
that CMS should also receive a copy of
any hospital’s application to the
VerDate Aug<31>2005
17:25 Aug 07, 2008
Jkt 214001
MGCRB. The information submitted by
the hospitals is used by CMS staff to
determine the validity of the hospitals’
requests and the discretion used by the
MGCRB in reviewing and making
decisions regarding hospitals’ requests
for geographic reclassification. Since
CMS wrote the guidelines for the
MGCRB, it is essential that CMS staff
monitor this process. Form Number:
CMS–R–138 (OMB# 0938–0573);
Frequency: Yearly; Affected Public:
Business or other for-profits and Notfor-profit institutions; Number of
Respondents: 300; Total Annual
Responses: 300; Total Annual Hours:
300.
2. Type of Information Collection
Request: Extension of a currently
approved collection; Title of
Information Collection: Medicare
Prescription Drug Coverage and Your
Rights; Use: Section 42 CFR 423.562,
requires each Part D plan sponsor to
arrange with its network pharmacies to
post or distribute the Medicare
Prescription Drug Coverage and Your
Rights notice to Part D plan enrollees at
each pharmacy visit when the enrollee
disagrees with the information provided
by the pharmacist. The purpose of this
notice is to provide enrollees with
information about how to contact their
Part D plans to request a coverage
determination, including a request for
an exception to the Part D plan’s
formulary. Form Number: CMS 10147
(OMB# 0938–0975); Frequency: Daily;
Affected Public: Business or other forprofits; Number of Respondents: 40,000;
Total Annual Responses: 30,000,000;
Total Annual Hours: 500,000.
3. Type of Information Collection
Request: Extension of a currently
approved collection; Title of
Information Collection: Notice of Denial
of Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage;
Use: Section 1860D–4(g)(1) of the Social
Security Act, requires Part D plan
sponsors that deny prescription drug
coverage to provide a written notice of
the denial to the enrollee. The written
notice must include a statement, in clear
language, of the reasons for the denial
and a description of the appeals process.
Form Number: CMS 10146 (OMB#
0938–0976); Frequency: Daily; Affected
Public: Business or other for-profits;
Number of Respondents: 758; Total
Annual Responses: 290,344; Total
Annual Hours: 145,172.
4. Type of Information Collection
Request: Extension of a currently
approved collection; Title of
Information Collection: Minimum Data
Set (MDS) for Swing Bed Hospitals and
Supporting Regulations in 42 CFR
413.114(a)(2) and 413.343(a); Use:
Exercising CMS’ authority under section
PO 00000
Frm 00067
Fmt 4703
Sfmt 4703
46301
1888(e)(7) of the Social Security Act to
determine the most appropriate manner
in which to implement the Skilled
Nursing Facility Prospective Payment
System (SNF PPS) for swing bed
hospitals, CMS designed a 2-page MDS
instrument for use by swing bed
hospitals that includes all resident
assessment data needed to reimburse
swing bed hospitals for SNF-level care
furnished to Medicare beneficiaries and
to provide CMS with the basic
demographic and utilization data for
future planning and analysis. Form
Number: CMS–10064 (OMB# 0938–
0872); Frequency: Occasionally;
Affected Public: Business or other forprofits, Not-for-profit institutions and
State, Local, or Tribal Governments;
Number of Respondents: 481; Total
Annual Responses: 50,505; Total
Annual Hours: 328,283.
5. Type of Information Collection
Request: Revision of a currently
approved collection; Title of
Information Collection: Disclosures to
Patients by Certain Hospitals and
Critical Access Hospitals and
Supporting Regulations in 42 CFR
489.20; Form Number: CMS–10225
(OMB#: 0938–1035); Use: This
information request relates to proposed
required third party disclosures by
certain Medicare-participating hospitals
and critical access hospitals (CAHs) to
their patients. The policy is contained
in the FY 2009 Inpatient Prospective
Payment System Final Rule. Because
this information request is closely
related to the previously approved
collection burden under 0938–01034,
we have included a discussion of both
the approved provisions and the new
provisions in the supporting statement
document.
In addition to the two existing
collections previously approved under
0938–1034, we are revising § 489.3 to
define a physician-owned hospital as a
hospital in which a physician, or an
immediate family member of a
physician has an ownership or
investment interest in the hospital.
Because of this change to the definition
of a physician-owned hospital, new
§ 489.20(u)(1) will require that hospitals
with ownership or investment interests
by a physician or immediate family
member disclose this information to all
their patients. Additionally, we revised
§ 489.20(u) by creating § 489.20(u)(1)
that requires any physician-owned
hospital to furnish patients with written
notice that the hospital is physicianowned and provide the list of physician
owners (including immediate family
members) to the patient at the time the
patient or someone on the patient’s
behalf requests it.
E:\FR\FM\08AUN1.SGM
08AUN1
]]>Agencies
[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 154 (Friday, August 8, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46300-46301]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-18177]
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of
Authority
Part C (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) of the
Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority of
the Department of Health and Human Services (45 FR 67772-76, dated
October 14, 1980, and corrected at 45 FR 69296, October 20, 1980, as
amended most recently at 73 FR 35140, dated June 20, 2008) is amended
to reflect the reorganization of the Office of the Director, Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention.
Section C-B, Organization and Functions, is hereby amended as
follows: Delete in their entirety the titles and functional statements
for the Office of Strategy and Innovation (CAM) and the Office of Chief
of Public Health Practice (CAR) and insert the following:
Office of Strategy and Innovation (CAM). The Office of Strategy and
Innovation (OSI) serves as the focal point for accelerating the health
impact of CDC's work within and beyond CDC's programs. In carrying out
its mission, OSI: (1) Leads CDC's efforts to develop, monitor,
evaluate, and advance agency strategic direction, planning, and
priorities; (2) fosters strategic excellence and innovation across the
agency; (3) provides superior decision support to CDC's executive
leadership; (4) leads the development of health in all policies; (5)
promotes the health, safety, and quality of life of women; and (6)
improves the health of the public through law.
Office of the Director (CAM1). (1) Develops, monitors, and advances
CDC's strategic direction, planning, and priorities; (2) provides
leadership and vision for formulating and evaluating policy; (3)
fosters strategic excellence and innovation across the agency; (4)
applies knowledge management tools and decision support systems in
allocation of resources and improves agency decision-making; (5)
communicates key messages to CDC employees and partners about CDC's
strategic direction, planning, and priorities; and (6) works directly
with the strategy and innovation officers within the coordinating
centers to develop, monitor, and advance CDC strategic direction and
priorities and institutionalize organizational change, improvement, and
accountability.
Office of Women's Health (CAM12). The Office of Women's Health
(OWH) aims to promote and improve the health, safety, and quality of
life of women. As a leader for women's health issues at CDC, the Office
of Women's Health: (1) Advises the CDC Director on matters relating to
women's health research, programs, and strategies; (2) promotes the
health and well-being of women; (3) communicates health information,
research findings, and prevention strategies to a diverse group of
providers, consumers, and organizations; (4) advances sound scientific
knowledge for public health action, promotes the role of prevention,
and works to improve the understanding of women's health priorities;
(5) fosters partnerships and collaborations within CDC and with other
public and private organizations, agencies, institutions, and others to
improve the health and safety of women; (6) publishes newsletters and
other documents that highlight prevention programs, research findings,
publications, health campaigns, health promotion strategies, and other
information available at CDC; (7) leads CDC Women's Health Committee by
facilitating and coordinating agency-wide efforts and enhancing
channels for communication and cooperation; (8) supports the
development of future women's health and public health professionals
through various training and student positions within the office; (9)
prepares agency reports, briefing documents, and other materials
addressing women's health issues; (10) stimulates and supports
prevention research, programs, and other activities through funding;
(11) represents the agencies at meetings, committees, workgroups,
conferences, and briefings; (12) serves as liaison for women's health
between CDC and other agencies and organizations; (13) develops
opportunities for, promotes, and supports the agency as a resource for
women's health issues; and (14) provides assistance to state and local
programs on women's health issues.
Public Health Law Program (CAM13). The mission of the Public Health
Law Program is to improve the health of the public through law. The
program: (1) Provides technical assistance to CDC centers and to
extramural partners in developing their legal preparedness to address
the full spectrum of health protection goals; (2) collaborates with CDC
and extramural partners in developing tools for use in assessing and
improving the public health legal preparedness of the health system;
(3) strengthens the competencies of practitioners in public health,
emergency management, law, and other sectors to apply law to improve
public health; (4) supports and conducts applied research in public
health law and translates findings into practice; (5) provides
consultation and analysis in public health law to CDC programs and
extramural constituents; (6) establishes partnerships among CDC and
other organizations active in public health law and assists in
strengthening their public health law capacity and expertise; and (7)
develops and disseminates authoritative information on public health
law and public health law best practices to practitioners and policy
makers.
Office of Chief of Public Health Practice (CAR). The Office of
Chief of Public Health Practice (OCPHP) serves as the advocate,
guardian, promoter, and conscience of public health practice throughout
CDC and in the larger public health community; ensures coordination and
synergy of CDC's scientific and practice activities; and promotes and
protects the public's health through science-based, practice-relevant
standards, policies, and legal tools. To carry out its mission, OCPHP:
(1) Establishes robust partnerships among CDC programs, public health
practitioners and key sectors, including elected officials, the legal
community, and law enforcement and emergency response organizations;
(2) establishes a functional area focused specifically on standards and
improvement in practice among state and local public health systems;
(3) advances the development and implementation of a national agency
accreditation system; (4) relates relevant research and policy analysis
to public health practice; (5) monitors and anticipates public health
practice trends and issues; and (6) coordinates and addresses cross-
cutting issues related to public health practice within CDC; and (7)
develops, monitors and advances agency-wide goals for improving health
equity, fostering strategic excellence and innovation across CDC, and
organizational development and the transition process.
[[Page 46301]]
Dated: July 31, 2008.
William H. Gimson,
Chief Operating Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. E8-18177 Filed 8-7-08; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4160-18-M
