Department of Health and Human Services October 30, 2008 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

This document contains a technical correction to the list of select agents and toxins regulated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), as well as those biological agents and toxins regulated by both HHS and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) published on October 16, 2008, in the Federal Register (73 FR 61363). This correction inserts ``Reconstructed replication competent forms of the 1918 pandemic influenza virus containing any portion of the coding regions of all eight segments (Reconstructed 1918 Influenza virus)'' that was inadvertently omitted from the list of agents and toxins regulated by only HHS.

This notice announces a listening session being conducted by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to solicit informal comments on hospital- acquired conditions (HACs) and hospital outpatient healthcare- associated conditions (HOP-HACs) in preparation for the fiscal year (FY) 2010 inpatient prospective payment systems (IPPS) and calendar year (CY) 2010 outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) rulemaking processes. Hospitals, hospital associations, representatives of consumer purchasers, payors of health care services, and other interested parties are invited to attend and make comments in person or in writing. It will also be possible to listen to the session by teleconference. Verbal comments will be taken from telephone participants as time permits. This meeting is open to the public, but registration is required. Further information regarding this listening session will be posted on the HAC section of the CMS Web site at http:/ /www.cms.hhs.gov/HospitalAcqCond/01_Overview.asp and the OPPS section of the CMS Web site at https://www.cms.hhs.gov/hospitaloutpatientpps/.