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base pay component is set by statute,
market pay is intended to reflect the
recruitment and retention needs for the
specialty or assignment of a particular
physician or dentist at a facility.
Further, performance pay is intended to
recognize the achievement of specific
goals and performance objectives
prescribed annually. These three
components create a system of pay that
is driven by both market indicators and
employee performance, while
recognizing employee tenure in VHA.
On April 8, 2019, the President signed
Public Law 116–12, which amended 38
U.S.C. 7431 to include podiatrists
within the physician and dentist pay
system, authorizing podiatrists to
receive base pay, market pay, and
performance pay.
With the amendment, podiatrists are
also subject to the same limitations and
requirements as physician and dentists
under 7431.
With regard to the Pay Tables for
physicians and dentists, there have been
changes to the minimum and maximum
amounts for Pay Table 5. However, the
minimum and maximum amounts for
Pay Tables 1–4 have remained
unchanged since the 2016 publication
in the Federal Register.
Discussion
VA identified and utilized salary
survey data sources which most closely
represent VA comparability in the areas
of practice setting, employment
environment, and hospital/health care
system. The Association of American
Medical Colleges (AAMC), Hospital and
Healthcare Compensation Service
(HHCS), Sullivan, Cotter, and Associates
(S&C), Medical Group Management
Association (MGMA), and the Survey of
Dental Practice published by the
American Dental Association (ADA)
were collectively utilized as
benchmarks from which to prescribe
annual pay ranges across the scope of
assignments/specialties within the
Department. While aggregating the data,
a preponderance of weight was given to
those surveys which most directly
resembled the environment of the
Department.
In constructing annual pay ranges to
accommodate the more than 40
specialties that currently exist in the VA
system, VA continued the practice of
grouping specialties into consolidated
pay ranges. This allows VA to use
multiple sources that yield a high
number of salary data which helps to
minimize disparities and aberrations
that may surface from data involving
smaller numbers for comparison and
from sample change from year to year.
Thus, by aggregating multiple survey
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sources into like groupings, greater
confidence exists that the average
compensation reported is truly
representative. In addition, aggregation
of data provides for a large enough
sample size and provides pay ranges
with maximum flexibility for pay setting
for VHA physicians, dentists, and
podiatrists.
In developing the annual pay ranges,
a few distinctive principles were
factored into the compensation analysis
of the data. The first principle is to
ensure that both the minimum and
maximum salary is at a level that
accommodates special employment
situations, from fellowships and
medical research career development
awards to Nobel Laureates, high-cost
areas, and internationally renowned
clinicians. The second principle is to
provide ranges large enough to
accommodate career progression,
geographic differences, subspecialization, and other special factors.
Clinical specialties were reviewed
against available, relevant private sector
data. The specialties are grouped into
four clinical pay ranges that reflect
comparable complexity in salary,
recruitment, and retention
considerations. One recommendation
was made to rename Anesthesiology
Pain Management in Pay Table 3 to Pain
Management (Interventional and NonOperating Room (OR) Anesthesiology).
This change is necessary to distinguish
that Interventional/Non-OR
Anesthesiology is the primary role. Two
additional pay ranges apply to VHA
Chiefs of Staff and executive level
administrative assignments at the
facility, network, or headquarters level.
There is a change to Pay Table 5.
Tier level
Minimum
Maximum
Pay Table 6—Covered Executive
Assignments
Principal Deputy, Deputy Under Secretary for
Health, Chief Officer, Network Director,
Medical Center Director, Network Chief Officer, Executive Director, Assistant Under
Secretary for Health, VA Central Office
Chief Consultant, National Director, National Program Manager and other VA
Central Office Physician/Dentist.
Signing Authority
The Secretary of Veterans Affairs
approved this document and authorized
the undersigned to sign and submit the
document to the Office of the Federal
Register for publication electronically as
an official document of the Department
of Veterans Affairs. Robert L. Wilkie,
Secretary, Department of Veterans
Affairs, approved this document on
August 8, 2019, for publication.
Dated: August 15, 2019.
Jeffrey M. Martin,
Assistant Director, Office of Regulation Policy
& Management, Office of the Secretary,
Department of Veterans Affairs.
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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS
AFFAIRS
Veterans’ Family, Caregiver, and
Survivor Advisory Committee, Notice
of Meeting
The Department of Veterans Affairs
(VA) gives notice under the Federal
Advisory Committee Act (FACA) that
the Veterans’ Family, Caregiver, and
Survivor Advisory Committee will meet
Tier level
Minimum Maximum on September 25–26, 2019. The meeting
will be held at the American Red Cross,
Pay Table 5—Chief of Staff
430 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
20006. The meeting sessions will begin
TIER 1 ...................... $150,000 $350,000 and end as follows:
TIER 2 ......................
TIER 3 ......................
TIER 4 ......................
147,000
145,000
140,000
325,000
300,000
275,000
Pay Table 5—Covered Assignments
VHA Chiefs of Staff—Tier assignments are
based on published facility complexity
level: Network Chief Medical Officer, Chief
of Staff Complexity Levels 1a & 1b Chief of
Staff Complexity Level 1c, Deputy Network
Chief Medical Officer, Chief of Staff Complexity Level 2, Chief of Staff Complexity
Level 3, and All Deputy Chiefs of Staff.
Pay Table 6—Executive Assignments
TIER 1 ......................
TIER 2 ......................
TIER 3 ......................
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145,000
145,000
130,000
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304,750
249,900
235,000
Date
September 25, 2019
September 26, 2019
Time
9:00 a.m. to 4:30
p.m. EST.
9:00 a.m. to 2:00
p.m. EST.
The meetings are open to the public.
The purpose of the Committee is to
advise the Secretary of Veterans Affairs
on matters related to: The need of
Veterans’ families, caregivers, and
survivors across all generations,
relationships, and Veterans status; the
use of VA care, benefits and memorial
services by Veterans’ families,
caregivers, and survivors, and
opportunities for improvements to the
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experience using such services; VA
policies, regulations, and administrative
requirements related to the transition of
Servicemembers from the Department of
Defense (DoD) to enrollment in VA that
impact Veterans’ families, caregivers,
and survivors; and factors that influence
access to, quality of, and accountability
for services, benefits and memorial
services for Veterans’ families,
caregivers, and survivors.
On September 25 and September 26,
the agenda will include opening
remarks from the Committee Chair and
the Chief Veterans Experience Officer.
There will also be status updates on the
Recommendations the Committee
submitted in November 2018 (e.g.
implementation of the Mission Act,
Inclusive Care Initiative, Electronic
Medical Health Records, and the Center
for Excellence’s new research).
Committee members will also discuss
their work plan and future activities. On
September 25, 2019, public comments
will be received at 3:30 p.m. to 4:30
p.m.
Individuals wishing to speak should
contact Ms. Toni Bush Neal (Alternate
Designated Federal Official) at
VEOFACA@va.gov to submit a 1–2 page
summary of their comments for
inclusion in the official meeting record.
In accordance with FACA guidelines,
each speaker will be held to a 5-minute
time limit.
Members of the public interested in
attending should submit their name to
VEOFACA@va.gov by September 20,
2019 to help expedite the sign-in
process. To prevent delays, members of
the public should allow an additional
30 minutes for parking and access to the
facility. Any member of the public
seeking additional information should
contact Betty Moseley Brown
(Designated Federal Official) at
Betty.MoseleyBrown@va.gov or (210)
392–2505.
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Dated: August 15, 2019.
Jelessa M. Burney,
Federal Advisory Committee Management
Officer.
[FR Doc. 2019–17947 Filed 8–19–19; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS
AFFAIRS
Advisory Committee on Cemeteries
and Memorials, Notice of Meeting
The Department of Veterans Affairs
(VA) gives notice under the Federal
Advisory Committee Act that a meeting
of the Advisory Committee on
Cemeteries and Memorials will be held
on October 22–October 23, 2019. The
meeting sessions will take place at the
Phoenix Regional Benefits Office, 3333
North Central Avenue, Phoenix, Arizona
85012. The meeting sessions will begin
as follows:
Date
Time
October 22, 2019 ......
October 23, 2019 ......
8:00 a.m. to 4:30
p.m. (Mountain
Time—MT).
8:00 a.m. to 4:30
p.m. MT.
The meeting sessions are open to the
public. If you’re interested in attending
the meeting virtually, the dial in
number for both days is 1–800–767–
1750, 02668#.
The purpose of the Committee is to
advise the Secretary of Veterans Affairs
on the administration of national
cemeteries, soldiers’ lots and plots, the
selection of new national cemetery sites,
the erection of appropriate memorials,
and the adequacy of Federal burial
benefits. The Committee will make
recommendations to the Secretary
regarding such activities.
On Tuesday, October 22, 2019, from
8:00 a.m.–9:30 a.m. MT, the agenda will
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include remarks by the VA Leadership,
and National, State, and Tribal
Cemetery Directors. Directly following
the business portion of the meeting, the
Committee, VA Staff, and Cemetery
Directors will visit the National
Memorial Cemetery at Arizona and the
Arizona Veterans’ Memorial Cemetery at
Marana. The Committee will conduct
tours of a national and state cemetery
from 9:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. MT.
Transportation will not be provided for
public guests.
On Wednesday, October 23, 2019,
from 8:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m. MT, the
agenda will include workgroup status
updates from the Access, Outreach, and
Choice Subcommittee. Directly
following the business portion of the
meeting, the Committee, VA Staff, and
Cemetery Directors will visit the San
Carlos Apache Tribal Veterans’
Cemetery. The Committee will conduct
a tour of a tribal cemetery from 10:00
a.m.–4:30 p.m. MT. Transportation will
not be provided for public guests.
Any member of the public wishing to
attend the meeting should contact Ms.
Christine Hamilton, Designated Federal
Officer, at (202) 461–5681. The
Committee will also accept written
comments. Comments may be
transmitted electronically to the
Committee at Christine.hamilton1@
va.gov or mailed to the National
Cemetery Administration (40A1), 810
Vermont Avenue NW, Room 400,
Washington, DC 20420. In the public’s
communications with the Committee,
the writers must identify themselves
and state the organizations, associations,
or persons they represent.
Dated: August 15, 2019.
Jelessa M. Burney,
Federal Advisory Committee Management
Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
Veterans' Family, Caregiver, and Survivor Advisory Committee,
Notice of Meeting
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) gives notice under the
Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) that the Veterans' Family,
Caregiver, and Survivor Advisory Committee will meet on September 25-
26, 2019. The meeting will be held at the American Red Cross, 430 17th
Street NW, Washington, DC 20006. The meeting sessions will begin and
end as follows:
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Date Time
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September 25, 2019........................ 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. EST.
September 26, 2019........................ 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. EST.
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The meetings are open to the public.
The purpose of the Committee is to advise the Secretary of Veterans
Affairs on matters related to: The need of Veterans' families,
caregivers, and survivors across all generations, relationships, and
Veterans status; the use of VA care, benefits and memorial services by
Veterans' families, caregivers, and survivors, and opportunities for
improvements to the
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experience using such services; VA policies, regulations, and
administrative requirements related to the transition of Servicemembers
from the Department of Defense (DoD) to enrollment in VA that impact
Veterans' families, caregivers, and survivors; and factors that
influence access to, quality of, and accountability for services,
benefits and memorial services for Veterans' families, caregivers, and
survivors.
On September 25 and September 26, the agenda will include opening
remarks from the Committee Chair and the Chief Veterans Experience
Officer. There will also be status updates on the Recommendations the
Committee submitted in November 2018 (e.g. implementation of the
Mission Act, Inclusive Care Initiative, Electronic Medical Health
Records, and the Center for Excellence's new research). Committee
members will also discuss their work plan and future activities. On
September 25, 2019, public comments will be received at 3:30 p.m. to
4:30 p.m.
Individuals wishing to speak should contact Ms. Toni Bush Neal
(Alternate Designated Federal Official) at [email protected] to submit a
1-2 page summary of their comments for inclusion in the official
meeting record. In accordance with FACA guidelines, each speaker will
be held to a 5-minute time limit.
Members of the public interested in attending should submit their
name to [email protected] by September 20, 2019 to help expedite the sign-
in process. To prevent delays, members of the public should allow an
additional 30 minutes for parking and access to the facility. Any
member of the public seeking additional information should contact
Betty Moseley Brown (Designated Federal Official) at
[email protected] or (210) 392-2505.
Dated: August 15, 2019.
Jelessa M. Burney,
Federal Advisory Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 2019-17947 Filed 8-19-19; 8:45 am]
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