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Research Advisory Committee, National
Institute for Occupational Safety and
Health, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, 626 Cochrans Mill Road,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15236.
Telephone: (412) 386–5688; Email:
SMischler@cdc.gov.
Purpose: The Mine Safety and Health
Research Advisory Committee is
charged with providing advice to the
Secretary, Department of Health and
Human Services; the Director, Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention; and
the Director, National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health
(NIOSH), on priorities in mine safety
and health research, including grants
and contracts for such research, 30
U.S.C. 812(b)(2), Section 102(b)(2).
Matters To Be Considered: The agenda
will include discussions on NIOSH
mining safety and health research
organizational structure, capabilities,
projects, and outcomes, as well as a
verbal report from the Mace
Development Workgroup. The meeting
will also include an update from the
NIOSH Associate Deputy Director, Mine
Safety and Research. Agenda items are
subject to change as priorities dictate.
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Public Participation
Written Public Comment: The public
may submit written comments or
questions in advance of the meeting, to
the Designated Federal Officer (see FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT above).
Written comments received in advance
of the meeting will be included in the
official record of the meeting, and
questions will be answered during the
oral comment period open to public
participation.
Oral Public Comment: The meeting
will include time for members of the
public to make an oral comment. The
public comment session will be held on
April 17, 2024, at 3:30 p.m., EDT, or the
conclusion of the planned
presentations, whichever comes first.
Members of the public will be allocated
5 to 10 minutes each for presentations
or comments, as a function of the
number of commenters.
The Director, Office of Strategic
Business Initiatives, Office of the Chief
Operating Officer, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, has been
delegated the authority to sign Federal
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Meeting of the Advisory Board on
Radiation and Worker Health, National
Institute for Occupational Safety and
Health
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
Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
announces a meeting of the Advisory
Board on Radiation and Worker Health
(ABRWH or the Advisory Board). This
meeting is open to the public, with a
public comment period. The public is
welcome to submit written comments in
advance of the meeting, to the contact
person below. Written comments
received in advance of the meeting will
be included in the official record of the
meeting. The public is also welcomed to
listen to the meeting by joining the
teleconference (information below). The
audio conference line has 150 ports for
callers.
DATES: The meeting will be held on
April 17, 2024, from 9:15 a.m. to 6 p.m.,
EDT. A public comment session will be
held at 5 p.m. and will conclude at 6
p.m. or following the final call for
public comment, whichever comes first.
Written comments must be received
on or before April 10, 2024.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
by mail to: Rashaun Roberts, National
Institute for Occupational Safety and
Health, 1090 Tusculum Avenue, MS C–
24, Cincinnati, Ohio 45226.
Meeting Information: The USA tollfree dial-in numbers are: +1 669 254
5252 US (San Jose); +1 646 828 7666 US
(New York). The Meeting ID is: 160
6763 3819 and the Passcode is:
98685439; Web conference by Zoom
meeting connection: https://
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Rashaun Roberts, Ph.D., Designated
Federal Officer, National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health, Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention,
1090 Tusculum Avenue, Mailstop C–24,
Cincinnati, Ohio 45226, Telephone
(513) 533–6800, Toll Free 1(800) 232–
4636, Email: ocas@cdc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background: The Advisory Board was
established under the Energy Employees
Occupational Illness Compensation
Program Act of 2000 to advise the
President on a variety of policy and
technical functions required to
implement and effectively manage the
new compensation program. Key
functions of the Advisory Board include
providing advice on the development of
probability of causation guidelines
which have been promulgated by the
Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS) as a final rule, advice on
methods of dose reconstruction which
have also been promulgated by HHS as
a final rule, advice on the scientific
validity and quality of dose estimation
and reconstruction efforts being
performed for purposes of the
compensation program, and advice on
petitions to add classes of workers to the
Special Exposure Cohort (SEC). In
December 2000, the President delegated
responsibility for funding, staffing, and
operating the Advisory Board to HHS,
which subsequently delegated this
authority to the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC). The
National Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health implements this
responsibility for CDC.
The charter was issued on August 3,
2001, renewed at appropriate intervals,
and rechartered under Executive Order
14109 on March 22, 2022, and will
terminate on March 22, 2024.
Purpose: This Advisory Board is
charged with (a) providing advice to the
Secretary, HHS, on the development of
guidelines under Executive Order
13179; (b) providing advice to the
Secretary, HHS, on the scientific
validity and quality of dose
reconstruction efforts performed for this
program; and (c) upon request by the
Secretary, HHS, advising the Secretary
on whether there is a class of employees
at any Department of Energy (DOE)
facility who were exposed to radiation
but for whom it is not feasible to
estimate their radiation dose, and on
whether there is reasonable likelihood
that such radiation doses may have
endangered the health of members of
this class.
Matters to be Considered: The agenda
will include discussions on the
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following: NIOSH Program Update;
Department of Labor Program Update;
Department of Energy Program Update;
SEC Petitions Update; Procedures
Review Finalization/Document
Approvals, Dose Reconstruction Review
Methods and TBD 6000 Workgroup
updates, Metals and Control Corp SEC
Petition 236 (Attleboro, MA; January
1968–March 1997), and a Board Work
Session. Agenda items are subject to
change as priorities dictate.
The Director, Office of Strategic
Business Initiatives, Office of the Chief
Operating Officer, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, has been
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, Office of Strategic Business
Initiatives, Office of the Chief Operating
Officer, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
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Centers for Medicare &
Medicaid Services (CMS), Department
of Health and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
This notice provides
information on changes to data elements
that providers are required to submit to
the National Plan and Provider
Enumeration System (NPPES) to obtain
and maintain a National Provider
Identifier (NPI). The changes to the
required data elements affect the data
that is made available to the public from
NPPES in downloadable files and in a
query-only database on the internet.
DATES: This notice is applicable on
April 3, 2024.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Christopher S. Wilson, (410) 786–3178
or Beth A. Karpiak, (312) 353–1351.
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I. Background
A. Legislative and Regulatory
Background
Through subtitle F of title II of the
Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA),
Congress added Part C, ‘‘Administrative
Simplification’’ to title XI of the Social
Security Act (the Act). (Pub. L. 104–
191). Part C of title XI consists of
sections 1171 through 1179 of the Act.
These sections define various terms and
impose requirements on the Secretary of
the Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS) (hereinafter referred to
as the Secretary), health plans, health
care clearinghouses, and certain health
care providers concerning the adoption
of standards and implementation
specifications relating to health
information. The Secretary delegated
authority for administering and
enforcing HIPAA Administrative
Simplification provisions related to
transactions, code sets, unique
identifiers, and operating rules,
implemented in 45 CFR parts 160 and
162, to the Centers for Medicare &
Medicaid Services (CMS) (see 68 FR
60694).
Section 1173(b) of the Act requires the
Secretary to adopt a standard unique
health identifier for each individual,
employer, health plan, and health care
provider for use in the health care
system and to specify the purposes for
which the identifiers may be used. On
May 7, 1998 (63 FR 25320), HHS
proposed a standard unique health
identifier for health care providers and
requirements concerning its
implementation (hereinafter referred to
as the National Provider Identifier (NPI)
proposed rule). On January 23, 2004 (69
FR 3434), HHS published a final rule
that adopted the NPI as the standard
unique health identifier for health care
providers (hereinafter referred to as the
NPI final rule). The NPI final rule
established that HIPAA covered entities
must use NPIs to identify health care
providers in electronic transactions for
which the Secretary has adopted a
standard. Covered entities include
health plans, health care clearinghouses,
and health care providers who transmit
any health information in electronic
form in connection with a transaction
for which the Secretary has adopted a
standard.
B. Operational and System Background
The NPI final rule established that
NPIs are assigned to health care
providers through the National Provider
System (NPS). The preamble to the NPI
final rule included an ‘‘NPS Data
Elements Table’’ (69 FR 3457) that listed
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the data elements HHS expected to
collect about a health care provider and
include in the NPS. The NPS, now
called the National Plan and Provider
Enumeration System (NPPES),1
uniquely identifies health care
providers through an application
process and assigns NPIs. NPPES creates
a record for each health care provider to
whom it assigns an NPI. The records are
updated when health care providers
furnish updates to NPPES.
Health care providers are categorized
by NPPES into two types: Individuals,
such as physicians; and organizations,
such as hospitals. A health care
provider may apply for an NPI in one
of three ways, by: (1) completing form
CMS–10114 (NPI Application/Update
Form) and mailing it to NPPES; (2)
applying online at https://NPPES.cms.
hhs.gov/; or (3) having an approved
Electronic File Interchange Organization
(EFIO) submit its NPI application data
to NPPES in an electronic format
defined by HHS.2 3 Health care
providers who apply online have
electronic access to the information in
their own NPPES records by using user
identifiers and passwords they select.
This access allows those health care
providers to submit updates to their
NPPES data electronically via the
internet.
The NPI final rule requires that the
NPS (now NPPES) disseminate data in
response to approved requests.
Following publication of the NPI final
rule, CMS, as the administrator of
NPPES, published a notice in the May
30, 2007 Federal Register (72 FR 30011)
describing the data dissemination
strategy for NPI data maintained in
NPPES and the process by which CMS
would carry out the strategy (hereinafter
referred to as the NPPES Data
Dissemination notice). The NPPES Data
Dissemination notice included a list of
data elements that CMS determined are
required to be disclosed under the
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) (see
72 FR 30012).
The health care industry needs
NPPES health care provider data to
know the NPIs of health care providers
to be able to submit HIPAA-compliant
health care transactions. In anticipation
1 https://nppes.cms.hhs.gov/#/.
2 The information collection request is currently
approved under OMB control number 0938–0931.
(https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
DownloadNOA?requestID=311118).
3 The Electronic File Interchange (EFI), also
referred to as ‘‘bulk enumeration,’’ is a process by
which a provider or group of providers can have an
EFIO apply for NPIs on their behalf. EFIOs are
approved by CMS through a certification process
and submit information in a format designated by
CMS; https://www.cms.gov/medicare/regulationsguidance/administrative-simplification/efi.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Meeting of the Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health,
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
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
Centers for Disease Control (CDC) announces a meeting of the Advisory
Board on Radiation and Worker Health (ABRWH or the Advisory Board).
This meeting is open to the public, with a public comment period. The
public is welcome to submit written comments in advance of the meeting,
to the contact person below. Written comments received in advance of
the meeting will be included in the official record of the meeting. The
public is also welcomed to listen to the meeting by joining the
teleconference (information below). The audio conference line has 150
ports for callers.
DATES: The meeting will be held on April 17, 2024, from 9:15 a.m. to 6
p.m., EDT. A public comment session will be held at 5 p.m. and will
conclude at 6 p.m. or following the final call for public comment,
whichever comes first.
Written comments must be received on or before April 10, 2024.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by mail to: Rashaun Roberts,
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 1090 Tusculum
Avenue, MS C-24, Cincinnati, Ohio 45226.
Meeting Information: The USA toll-free dial-in numbers are: +1 669
254 5252 US (San Jose); +1 646 828 7666 US (New York). The Meeting ID
is: 160 6763 3819 and the Passcode is: 98685439; Web conference by Zoom
meeting connection: https://cdc.zoomgov.com/j/16067633819?pwd=RUdiYXlZZHFKanpJOHZrcGJIbTlaZz09.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rashaun Roberts, Ph.D., Designated
Federal Officer, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1090 Tusculum Avenue,
Mailstop C-24, Cincinnati, Ohio 45226, Telephone (513) 533-6800, Toll
Free 1(800) 232-4636, Email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background: The Advisory Board was established under the Energy
Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 to
advise the President on a variety of policy and technical functions
required to implement and effectively manage the new compensation
program. Key functions of the Advisory Board include providing advice
on the development of probability of causation guidelines which have
been promulgated by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
as a final rule, advice on methods of dose reconstruction which have
also been promulgated by HHS as a final rule, advice on the scientific
validity and quality of dose estimation and reconstruction efforts
being performed for purposes of the compensation program, and advice on
petitions to add classes of workers to the Special Exposure Cohort
(SEC). In December 2000, the President delegated responsibility for
funding, staffing, and operating the Advisory Board to HHS, which
subsequently delegated this authority to the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC). The National Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health implements this responsibility for CDC.
The charter was issued on August 3, 2001, renewed at appropriate
intervals, and rechartered under Executive Order 14109 on March 22,
2022, and will terminate on March 22, 2024.
Purpose: This Advisory Board is charged with (a) providing advice
to the Secretary, HHS, on the development of guidelines under Executive
Order 13179; (b) providing advice to the Secretary, HHS, on the
scientific validity and quality of dose reconstruction efforts
performed for this program; and (c) upon request by the Secretary, HHS,
advising the Secretary on whether there is a class of employees at any
Department of Energy (DOE) facility who were exposed to radiation but
for whom it is not feasible to estimate their radiation dose, and on
whether there is reasonable likelihood that such radiation doses may
have endangered the health of members of this class.
Matters to be Considered: The agenda will include discussions on
the
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following: NIOSH Program Update; Department of Labor Program Update;
Department of Energy Program Update; SEC Petitions Update; Procedures
Review Finalization/Document Approvals, Dose Reconstruction Review
Methods and TBD 6000 Workgroup updates, Metals and Control Corp SEC
Petition 236 (Attleboro, MA; January 1968-March 1997), and a Board Work
Session. Agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate.
The Director, Office of Strategic Business Initiatives, Office of
the Chief Operating Officer, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, has been 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, Office of Strategic Business Initiatives, Office of the Chief
Operating Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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