Department of Health and Human Services July 20, 2009 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

Under the provisions of section 3507(a)(1)(D) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Fogarty International Center (FIC) and National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request for review and approval of the information collection listed below. This proposed information collection was previously published in the Federal Register on May 12, 2009, page 22172, and allowed 60-days for public comment. No comments were received from this notification regarding the cost and hour burden estimates. The purpose of this announcement is to allow an additional 30 days for public comment.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing that a collection of information entitled ``Record Retention Requirements for the Soy Protein and Coronary Heart Disease Health Claim'' has been approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.

This proposed rule would revise the Medicare hospital outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) to implement applicable statutory requirements and changes arising from our continuing experience with this system. In this proposed rule, we describe the proposed changes to the amounts and factors used to determine the payment rates for Medicare hospital outpatient services paid under the prospective payment system. These changes would be applicable to services furnished on or after January 1, 2010.