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Application is available at: https://
innovations.cms.gov/areas-of-focus/
seamless-and-coordinated-care-models/
pioneer-aco-application/.
ADDRESSES: Applications should be
submitted by mail to the following
address by the date specified in the
DATES section of this notice:
Pioneer ACO Model, Attention: Maria
Alexander, Center for Medicare and
Medicaid Innovation, Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Services, Mail
Stop S3–13–05, 7500 Security
Boulevard, Baltimore, MD 21244–
1850.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Maria Alexander, (410) 786–4792.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
We are committed to achieving the
three-part aim of better health, better
health care, and lower per-capita costs
for Medicare, Medicaid, and Children’s
Health Insurance Program beneficiaries.
One potential mechanism for achieving
this goal is for CMS to partner with
groups of health care providers of
services and suppliers with a
mechanism for shared governance that
have formed an Accountable Care
Organization (ACO) through which they
work together to manage and coordinate
care for a specified group of patients.
We will pursue such partnerships
through two complementary efforts, the
Medicare Shared Savings Program, and
initiatives undertaken by the Center for
Medicare and Medicaid Innovation
(Innovation Center).
The Pioneer ACO Model is an
Innovation Center initiative targeted at
organizations that can demonstrate the
improvements in financial and clinical
performance with respect to the care of
Medicare beneficiaries that are possible
in a mature ACO. To be eligible to
participate in the Pioneer ACO Model,
organizations would ideally already be
coordinating care for a significant
portion of patients under financial risk
sharing contracts and be positioned to
transform both their care and financial
models from fee-for-service to a threepart aim, value based model.
On May 17, 2011, we posted a request
for applications to participate in the
Pioneer ACO Model on the Innovation
Center Web site and we subsequently
published a notice announcing the
request for applications in the May 20,
2011 Federal Register (76 FR 29249).
On the Innovation Center Web site, we
specified that the submission deadline
for the letter of intent was June 10, 2011
and that the application deadline was to
be postmarked on or before July 18,
2011. For more details see the request
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for application which is available on the
Innovation Center Web site at https://
innovations.cms.gov/areas-of-focus/
seamless-and-coordinated-care-models/
pioneer-aco. However, in the May 20,
2011 notice, we specified that the
submission deadlines were June 10,
2011 and not later than 5 p.m. on July
19, 2011, respectively. Therefore, in the
June 8, 2011 Federal Register (76 FR
33306), we published a correction
notice that corrected our error in the
application submission deadline.
II. Provisions of the Notice
The Innovation Center is committed
to working with stakeholders to develop
initiatives to test innovative payment
and service delivery models to reduce
program expenditures while enhancing
the quality of care available to
beneficiaries. Being responsive to the
suggestions of the stakeholder
community is critical to the success of
the Innovation Center’s efforts to
achieve the three-part aim of better
healthcare, better health, and reduced
costs through improvement. As part of
this commitment, and based on the
feedback from the community of
potential applicants, the Innovation
Center is extending the following
deadlines relating to the Pioneer ACO
Model: (1) The deadline for submission
of the letter of intent has been extended
to June 30, 2011; and (2) the deadline
for the submission of the application
has been extended to August 19, 2011.
Therefore in the DATES section of this
notice, we included the new
submissions deadlines and in the
ADDRESSES section we provide the
address to which the applications must
be mailed.
Authority: Section 1115A of the Social
Security Act.
Dated: June 8, 2011.
Donald M. Berwick,
Administrator, Centers for Medicare &
Medicaid Services.
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services
[CMS–7031–NC3]
Proposed Establishment of a Federally
Funded Research and Development
Center—Third Notice
Centers for Medicare &
Medicaid Services (CMS), Department
of Health & Human Services (DHHS).
AGENCY:
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Notice.
This notice announces our
intention to sponsor Federally Funded
Research and Development Center
(FFRDC) to facilitate the modernization
of business processes and supporting
systems and their operations. This is the
third of three notices which must be
published over a 90-day period in order
to advise the public of the agency’s
intention to sponsor an FFRDC.
DATES: We must receive comments on or
before July 5, 2011.
ADDRESSES: Comments on this notice
must be mailed to the Centers for
Medicare & Medicaid Services, Candice
Savoy, Contracting Officer, 7500
Security Boulevard, Mailstop C2–01–10,
Baltimore, MD 21244 or e-mail at
Candice.Savoy@cms.hhs.gov.
SUMMARY:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Candice Savoy, (410) 786–7494 or
Candice.Savoy@cms.hhs.gov.
The
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services (CMS), an operating division
within the Department of Health and
Human Services (DHHS), intends to
sponsor a Federally Funded Research
and Development Center (FFRDC) to
facilitate the modernization of business
processes and supporting systems and
their operations. Some of the broad task
areas that will be utilized include
strategic/tactical planning, conceptual
planning, design and engineering,
procurement assistance, organizational
planning, research and development,
continuous process improvement,
Independent Verification and Validation
(IV&V)/compliance, and security
planning. Further analysis will consist
of expert advice and guidance in the
areas of program and project
management focused on increasing the
effectiveness and efficiency of strategic
information management, prototyping,
demonstrations, and technical activities.
The FFRDC may also be utilized by nonsponsors, within DHHS.
The FFRDC will be established under
the Federal Acquisition Regulations (48
CFR 35.017).
The FFRDC will be available to
provide a wide range of support
including, but not limited to:
• Strategic/tactical planning
including assisting with planning for
future CMS program policy, innovation,
development, and support for Medicare
and Medicaid.
• Conceptual planning including
operations, analysis, requirements,
procedures, and analytic support.
• Design and engineering including
technical architecture direction.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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• Procurement assistance, review/
recommendations for current contract
processes to include, contract reform,
technical guidance, price and cost
estimating, and source selection
evaluation support.
• Organizational planning including
functional and gap analysis.
• Research and development,
assessment of new technologies and
advice on medical and technical
innovation and health information.
• Continuous process improvement,
Investment Life Cycle (ILC)/current
practices review and recommendations,
implementation of best practices and
code reviews.
• IV&V/Compliance, DUA
surveillance and Web site content
review.
• Security including Security
Assessments and Security Test and
Evaluations (ST&E). Identify, define,
and resolve problems as an integral part
of the sponsor’s management team.
• Providing independent analysis
about DHHS vulnerabilities and the
effectiveness of systems deployed to
make DHHS more effective in providing
healthcare services and implementation
of new healthcare initiatives.
• Providing intra-departmental and
inter-agency cross-cutting, risk-informed
analysis of alternative resource
approaches.
• Developing and deploying
analytical tools and techniques to
evaluate system alternatives (for
example, policy-operations-technology
tradeoffs), and life-cycle costs that have
broad application across CMS.
• Developing measurable
performance metrics, models, and
simulations for determining progress in
securing DHHS data or other authorized
data sources, (non-DHHS data sources,
such as the census data or Department
of Labor data, Veterans Administration,
Department of Defense, data in
developing performance metrics, and
models).
• Providing independent and
objective operational test and evaluation
analysis support.
• Developing recommendations for
guidance on the best practices for
standards, particularly to improve the
inter-operability of DHHS components.
• Assessing technologies and
evaluating technology test-beds for
accurate simulation of operational
conditions and delivery system
innovation models.
• Supporting critical thinking about
the DHHS enterprise, business
intelligence and analytic tools that can
be applied consistently across DHHS
and CMS programs.
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• Supporting systems integration,
data management, and data exchange
that contribute to a larger DHHS intra
and inter-agency enterprise as well as
collaboration with States, local tribal
governments, the business sector (forprofit and not-for-profits), academia and
the public.
• Providing recommendations for
standards for top-level DHHS systems
requirements and performance metrics
best practices for an integrated DHHS
approach to systems solutions and
structured and unstructured data
architecture.
• Understanding key DHHS
organizations and their specific role and
major acquisition requirements and
support them in the requirements
development phase of the acquisition
lifecycle.
• The FFRDC must function so
effectively as to act as an agent for the
sponsor in the design and pursuit of
mission goals.
• The FFRDC must provide rapid
responsiveness to changing
requirements for personnel in all
aspects of strategic, technical and
program management.
• The FFRDC must recognize
government objectives as its own
objectives, partnering with the sponsor
in pursuit of excellence in public
service.
• The FFRDC must allow for nonsponsor (other than CMS) work for
operating Divisions within DHHS.
We are publishing this notice in
accordance with 48 CFR 5.205(b) of the
FAR, to enable interested members of
the public to provide comments on this
proposed action. We note that this is the
third of three notices issued under the
FAR.
The Request for Proposal will be
posted on FedBizOpps in the Summer
of 2011. Alternatively, a copy can be
received by contacting the person listed
in the ‘‘FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT’’ section above.
Dated: June 8, 2011.
Donald M. Berwick,
Administrator, Centers for Medicare &
Medicaid Services.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and
Families
Proposed Information Collection
Activity; Comment Request
Title: Voluntary Agencies Matching
Grant Program.
OMB No.: New.
Description: The Voluntary Agencies
Matching Grant Program was initiated
in 1979 as an early employment
alternative to public cash assistance.
The goal of the Matching Grant Program
is to assist individuals eligible for ORR
funded services in attaining economic
self-sufficiency within 120 to 180 days
from their date of eligibility. Selfsufficiency must be achieved without
accessing public cash assistance.
With the projected expansion of the
Voluntary Agencies Matching Grant
Program to 11 grantees in FY 2012, the
Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR)
intends to seek approval from Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
information collection associated with
the program. This includes a pre-award
template for each local service provider
site location and the data points the
program currently collects.
The Local Service Provider Site
Project Design template provides ORR
with the information necessary to
evaluate the appropriateness of the
service delivery according to the
capacity of the service provider to
deliver required services and the
potential of those enrolled in the
program to achieve self-sufficiency. The
collection instrument is a template
composed of a 1⁄2 page table with
contact and capacity data, a narrative of
up to 21⁄2 pages covering 11 elements
related to capacity and service delivery,
and a line-item budget. This form is
required as part of the initial grant
application and with each annual award
renewal.
The Data points are aggregate
measures for each site where Matching
Grant Program services are provided.
The data points will be collected using
SF–PPR D. ORR has found these data
points to be essential for evaluating
grantee and program performance in
meeting the requirements of both the
Refugee Act and ORR regulations. Data
points are recorded at enrollment and
120 days and/or 180 days from the point
when the enrolled individual became
eligible for the program. Data points
include, eligible immigration status,
employment eligibility and status, wage
level, reasons for dropping out of the
program (if applicable), and self-
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[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 114 (Tuesday, June 14, 2011)]
[Notices]
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[FR Doc No: 2011-14706]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
[CMS-7031-NC3]
Proposed Establishment of a Federally Funded Research and
Development Center--Third Notice
AGENCY: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Department of
Health & Human Services (DHHS).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: This notice announces our intention to sponsor Federally
Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) to facilitate the
modernization of business processes and supporting systems and their
operations. This is the third of three notices which must be published
over a 90-day period in order to advise the public of the agency's
intention to sponsor an FFRDC.
DATES: We must receive comments on or before July 5, 2011.
ADDRESSES: Comments on this notice must be mailed to the Centers for
Medicare & Medicaid Services, Candice Savoy, Contracting Officer, 7500
Security Boulevard, Mailstop C2-01-10, Baltimore, MD 21244 or e-mail at
Candice.Savoy@cms.hhs.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Candice Savoy, (410) 786-7494 or
Candice.Savoy@cms.hhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
(CMS), an operating division within the Department of Health and Human
Services (DHHS), intends to sponsor a Federally Funded Research and
Development Center (FFRDC) to facilitate the modernization of business
processes and supporting systems and their operations. Some of the
broad task areas that will be utilized include strategic/tactical
planning, conceptual planning, design and engineering, procurement
assistance, organizational planning, research and development,
continuous process improvement, Independent Verification and Validation
(IV&V)/compliance, and security planning. Further analysis will consist
of expert advice and guidance in the areas of program and project
management focused on increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of
strategic information management, prototyping, demonstrations, and
technical activities. The FFRDC may also be utilized by non-sponsors,
within DHHS.
The FFRDC will be established under the Federal Acquisition
Regulations (48 CFR 35.017).
The FFRDC will be available to provide a wide range of support
including, but not limited to:
Strategic/tactical planning including assisting with
planning for future CMS program policy, innovation, development, and
support for Medicare and Medicaid.
Conceptual planning including operations, analysis,
requirements, procedures, and analytic support.
Design and engineering including technical architecture
direction.
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Procurement assistance, review/recommendations for current
contract processes to include, contract reform, technical guidance,
price and cost estimating, and source selection evaluation support.
Organizational planning including functional and gap
analysis.
Research and development, assessment of new technologies
and advice on medical and technical innovation and health information.
Continuous process improvement, Investment Life Cycle
(ILC)/current practices review and recommendations, implementation of
best practices and code reviews.
IV&V/Compliance, DUA surveillance and Web site content
review.
Security including Security Assessments and Security Test
and Evaluations (ST&E). Identify, define, and resolve problems as an
integral part of the sponsor's management team.
Providing independent analysis about DHHS vulnerabilities
and the effectiveness of systems deployed to make DHHS more effective
in providing healthcare services and implementation of new healthcare
initiatives.
Providing intra-departmental and inter-agency cross-
cutting, risk-informed analysis of alternative resource approaches.
Developing and deploying analytical tools and techniques
to evaluate system alternatives (for example, policy-operations-
technology tradeoffs), and life-cycle costs that have broad application
across CMS.
Developing measurable performance metrics, models, and
simulations for determining progress in securing DHHS data or other
authorized data sources, (non-DHHS data sources, such as the census
data or Department of Labor data, Veterans Administration, Department
of Defense, data in developing performance metrics, and models).
Providing independent and objective operational test and
evaluation analysis support.
Developing recommendations for guidance on the best
practices for standards, particularly to improve the inter-operability
of DHHS components.
Assessing technologies and evaluating technology test-beds
for accurate simulation of operational conditions and delivery system
innovation models.
Supporting critical thinking about the DHHS enterprise,
business intelligence and analytic tools that can be applied
consistently across DHHS and CMS programs.
Supporting systems integration, data management, and data
exchange that contribute to a larger DHHS intra and inter-agency
enterprise as well as collaboration with States, local tribal
governments, the business sector (for-profit and not-for-profits),
academia and the public.
Providing recommendations for standards for top-level DHHS
systems requirements and performance metrics best practices for an
integrated DHHS approach to systems solutions and structured and
unstructured data architecture.
Understanding key DHHS organizations and their specific
role and major acquisition requirements and support them in the
requirements development phase of the acquisition lifecycle.
The FFRDC must function so effectively as to act as an
agent for the sponsor in the design and pursuit of mission goals.
The FFRDC must provide rapid responsiveness to changing
requirements for personnel in all aspects of strategic, technical and
program management.
The FFRDC must recognize government objectives as its own
objectives, partnering with the sponsor in pursuit of excellence in
public service.
The FFRDC must allow for non-sponsor (other than CMS) work
for operating Divisions within DHHS.
We are publishing this notice in accordance with 48 CFR 5.205(b) of
the FAR, to enable interested members of the public to provide comments
on this proposed action. We note that this is the third of three
notices issued under the FAR.
The Request for Proposal will be posted on FedBizOpps in the Summer
of 2011. Alternatively, a copy can be received by contacting the person
listed in the ``FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT'' section above.
Dated: June 8, 2011.
Donald M. Berwick,
Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
[FR Doc. 2011-14706 Filed 6-13-11; 8:45 am]
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