Department of Health and Human Services August 24, 2011 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The NIEHS is hosting a workshop entitled ``Advancing Research on Mixtures: New Perspectives and Approaches for Predicting Adverse Human Health Effects'' on September 26-27, 2011 at the Sheraton Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC. This workshop is organized to include plenary sessions and small group breakout sessions on specific topics. It is open to the public to attend as observers. For more information and to register for this workshop, please visit https://tools.niehs.nih.gov/ conferences/dert/mixtures/. The deadline to register for this workshop is Monday, September 12, 2011. Registration is limited to 85 observers based on available space.

This notice announces public meetings of the Technical Advisory Panel on Medicare Trustee Reports (Panel). Notice of these meetings is given under the Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App. 2, section 10(a)(1) and (a)(2)). The Panel will discuss the short- term (10 year) projection methods and assumptions in projecting Medicare health spending for Parts C and D and may make recommendations to the Medicare Trustees on how the Trustees might more accurately estimate health spending in the short run. They will also discuss the long term (75 year) projection methods and assumptions in projecting the National Health Expenditures and Medicare expenditures. The Panel's discussion is expected to be very technical in nature and will focus on the actuarial and economic assumptions and methods by which Trustees might more accurately measure health spending. Although panelists are not limited in the topics they may discuss, the Panel is not expected to discuss or recommend changes in current or future Medicare provider payment rates or coverage policy.