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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
Board of Scientific Counselors,
National Center for Health Statistics
(BSC, NCHS)
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), Department of Health
and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice of meeting.
AGENCY:
In accordance with the
Federal Advisory Committee Act, the
CDC announces the following meeting
for the Board of Scientific Counselors,
National Center for Health Statistics
BSC, NCHS). This meeting is open to
the public limited only by the audio (via
teleconference) lines available. The
public is welcome to listen to the
meeting, please use the following URL
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/bsc/
bsc_meetings.htm that points to the BSC
homepage. Further information and
meeting agenda will be available on the
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BSC website including instructions for
accessing the live meeting broadcast.
DATES: This meeting will be held on
January 27, 2021, from 11:00 a.m.—5:30
p.m., EST.
ADDRESSES: The teleconference access
ishttps://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/bsc/
bsc_meetings.htm.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Sayeedha Uddin, M.D., M.P.H.,
Executive Secretary, NCHS/CDC, Board
of Scientific Counselors, 3311 Toledo
Road, Room 2627, Hyattsville, Maryland
20782; Telephone (301) 458–4303,
Email SUddin@cdc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: PURPOSE:
This committee is charged with
providing advice and making
recommendations to the Secretary,
Department of Health and Human
Services; the Director, CDC; and the
Director, NCHS, regarding the scientific
and technical program goals and
objectives, strategies, and priorities of
NCHS.
Matters to be Considered: The
meeting agenda includes welcome
remarks and a Center update by NCHS
leadership; presentation on National
Center for Health Statistics Strategic
Planning; presentation on integrating
Pulse and RANDS Surveys into the
National Health Interview Survey; the
National Health and Nutrition
Examination Survey update; and update
on the National Ambulatory Medical
Care Survey workgroup. Agenda items
are subject to change as priorities
dictate.
The Director, Strategic Business
Initiatives Unit, Office of the Chief
Operating Officer, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, has been
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delegated the authority to sign Federal
Register notices pertaining to
announcements of meetings and other
committee management activities, for
both the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention and the Agency for Toxic
Substances and Disease Registry.
Kalwant Smagh,
Director, Strategic Business Initiatives Unit,
Office of the Chief Operating Officer, Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Medicare Program; Request for an
Exception to the Prohibition on
Expansion of Facility Capacity Under
the Hospital Ownership and Rural
Provider Exceptions to the Physician
Self-Referral Prohibition
Centers for Medicare &
Medicaid Services (CMS), HHS.
ACTION: Notice with request for
comment.
AGENCY:
The Social Security Act
prohibits a physician-owned hospital
from expanding its facility capacity,
unless the Secretary of the Department
of Health and Human Services grants
the hospital’s request for an exception to
that prohibition after considering input
on the hospital’s request from
individuals and entities in the
community where the hospital is
located. The Centers for Medicare &
Medicaid Services has received a
request from a physician-owned
hospital for an exception to the
prohibition against expansion of facility
capacity. This notice solicits comments
on the request from individuals and
entities in the community in which the
physician-owned hospital is located.
Community input may inform our
determination regarding whether the
requesting hospital qualifies for an
exception to the prohibition against
expansion of facility capacity.
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than 5 p.m. on January 11, 2021.
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comments.
I. Background
Section 1877 of the Social Security
Act (the Act), also known as the
physician self-referral law— (1)
prohibits a physician from making
referrals for certain designated health
services payable by Medicare to an
entity with which he or she (or an
immediate family member) has a
financial relationship, unless the
requirements of an applicable exception
are satisfied; and (2) prohibits the entity
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from filing claims with Medicare (or
billing another individual, entity, or
third party payer) for any improperly
referred designated health services. A
financial relationship may be an
ownership or investment interest in the
entity or a compensation arrangement
with the entity. The statute establishes
a number of specific exceptions and
grants the Secretary of the Department
of Health and Human Services (the
Secretary) the authority to create
regulatory exceptions for financial
relationships that do not pose a risk of
program or patient abuse.
Section 1877(d) of the Act sets forth
exceptions related to ownership or
investment interests held by a physician
(or an immediate family member of a
physician) in an entity that furnishes
designated health services. Section
1877(d)(2) of the Act provides an
exception for ownership or investment
interests in rural providers (the ‘‘rural
provider exception’’). In order to qualify
for the rural provider exception, the
designated health services must be
furnished in a rural area (as defined in
section 1886(d)(2) of the Act) and
substantially all the designated health
services furnished by the entity must be
furnished to individuals residing in a
rural area, and, in the case where the
entity is a hospital, the hospital meets
the requirements of section 1877(i)(1) of
the Act no later than September 23,
2011. Section 1877(d)(3) of the Act
provides an exception for ownership or
investment interests in a hospital
located outside of Puerto Rico (the
‘‘whole hospital exception’’). In order to
qualify for the whole hospital exception,
the referring physician must be
authorized to perform services at the
hospital, the ownership or investment
interest must be in the hospital itself
(and not merely in a subdivision of the
hospital), and the hospital meets the
requirements of section 1877(i)(1) of the
Act no later than September 23, 2011.
II. Prohibition on Facility Expansion
Section 6001(a)(3) of the Patient
Protection and Affordable Care Act
(Affordable Care Act) (Pub. L. 111–148)
amended the rural provider and whole
hospital exceptions to provide that a
hospital may not increase the number of
operating rooms, procedure rooms, and
beds beyond that for which the hospital
was licensed on March 23, 2010 (or, in
the case of a hospital that did not have
a provider agreement in effect as of this
date, but did have a provider agreement
in effect on December 31, 2010, the
effective date of such provider
agreement). Thus, since March 23, 2010,
a physician-owned hospital that seeks to
avail itself of either exception is
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Board of Scientific Counselors, National Center for Health
Statistics (BSC, NCHS)
AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice of meeting.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, the CDC
announces the following meeting for the Board of Scientific Counselors,
National Center for Health Statistics BSC, NCHS). This meeting is open
to the public limited only by the audio (via teleconference) lines
available. The public is welcome to listen to the meeting, please use
the following URL https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/bsc/bsc_meetings.htm
that points to the BSC homepage. Further information and meeting agenda
will be available on the BSC website including instructions for
accessing the live meeting broadcast.
DATES: This meeting will be held on January 27, 2021, from 11:00 a.m.--
5:30 p.m., EST.
ADDRESSES: The teleconference access ishttps://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/bsc/bsc_meetings.htm.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sayeedha Uddin, M.D., M.P.H.,
Executive Secretary, NCHS/CDC, Board of Scientific Counselors, 3311
Toledo Road, Room 2627, Hyattsville, Maryland 20782; Telephone (301)
458-4303, Email [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: PURPOSE: This committee is charged with
providing advice and making recommendations to the Secretary,
Department of Health and Human Services; the Director, CDC; and the
Director, NCHS, regarding the scientific and technical program goals
and objectives, strategies, and priorities of NCHS.
Matters to be Considered: The meeting agenda includes welcome
remarks and a Center update by NCHS leadership; presentation on
National Center for Health Statistics Strategic Planning; presentation
on integrating Pulse and RANDS Surveys into the National Health
Interview Survey; the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
update; and update on the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey
workgroup. Agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate.
The Director, Strategic Business Initiatives Unit, Office of the
Chief Operating Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
has been
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delegated the authority to sign Federal Register notices pertaining to
announcements of meetings and other committee management activities,
for both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Agency
for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.
Kalwant Smagh,
Director, Strategic Business Initiatives Unit, Office of the Chief
Operating Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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