Department of Health and Human Services April 3, 2017 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Conditions of Participation for Home Health Agencies; Delay of Effective Date
Document Number: 2017-06540
Type: Proposed Rule
Date: 2017-04-03
Agency: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Department of Health and Human Services
This proposed rule would delay the effective date for the final rule entitled ``Medicare and Medicaid Programs: Conditions of Participation for Home Health Agencies'' published in the Federal Register on January 13, 2017. The current effective date for the final rule is July 13, 2017, and this rule proposes to delay the effective date for an additional 6 months until January 13, 2018. This proposed rule would also make two conforming changes to dates that are included in the regulations text.
Medicaid Program; Disproportionate Share Hospital Payments-Treatment of Third Party Payers in Calculating Uncompensated Care Costs
Document Number: 2017-06538
Type: Rule
Date: 2017-04-03
Agency: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Department of Health and Human Services
This final rule addresses the hospital-specific limitation on Medicaid disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payments under section 1923(g)(1)(A) of the Social Security Act (Act), and the application of such limitation in the annual DSH audits required under section 1923(j) of the Act, by clarifying that the hospital-specific DSH limit is based only on uncompensated care costs. Specifically, this rule makes explicit in the text of the regulation, an existing interpretation that uncompensated care costs include only those costs for Medicaid eligible individuals that remain after accounting for payments made to hospitals by or on behalf of Medicaid eligible individuals, including Medicare and other third party payments that compensate the hospitals for care furnished to such individuals. As a result, the hospital-specific limit calculation will reflect only the costs for Medicaid eligible individuals for which the hospital has not received payment from any source.
Proposed Information Collection Activity; Comment Request
Document Number: 2017-06521
Type: Notice
Date: 2017-04-03
Agency: Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families
National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program; List of Petitions Received
Document Number: 2017-06499
Type: Notice
Date: 2017-04-03
Agency: Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration
HRSA is publishing this notice of petitions received under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (the program), as required by the Public Health Service (PHS) Act, as amended. While the Secretary of HHS is named as the respondent in all proceedings brought by the filing of petitions for compensation under the program, the United States Court of Federal Claims is charged by statute with responsibility for considering and acting upon the petitions.
Current List of HHS-Certified Laboratories and Instrumented Initial Testing Facilities Which Meet Minimum Standards To Engage in Urine Drug Testing for Federal Agencies
Document Number: 2017-06476
Type: Notice
Date: 2017-04-03
Agency: Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) notifies federal agencies of the laboratories and Instrumented Initial Testing Facilities (IITF) currently certified to meet the standards of the Mandatory Guidelines for Federal Workplace Drug Testing Programs (Mandatory Guidelines). A notice listing all currently HHS-certified laboratories and IITFs is published in the Federal Register during the first week of each month. If any laboratory or IITF certification is suspended or revoked, the laboratory or IITF will be omitted from subsequent lists until such time as it is restored to full certification under the Mandatory Guidelines. If any laboratory or IITF has withdrawn from the HHS National Laboratory Certification Program (NLCP) during the past month, it will be listed at the end and will be omitted from the monthly listing thereafter. This notice is also available on the Internet at https:// www.samhsa.gov/workplace.
Meetings of the National Preparedness and Response Science Board and the National Advisory Committee on Children and Disasters
Document Number: 2017-06409
Type: Notice
Date: 2017-04-03
Agency: Department of Health and Human Services
As stipulated by the Federal Advisory Committee Act, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is hereby giving notice that the National Preparedness and Response Science Board (NPRSB) will hold a public meeting on April 12, 2017, and a joint public meeting with the National Advisory Committee on Children and Disasters (NACCD) on April 13, 2017.
National Institute of Mental Health; Notice of Meeting
Document Number: 2017-06407
Type: Notice
Date: 2017-04-03
Agency: Department of Health and Human Services
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; Notice of Closed Meeting
Document Number: 2017-06403
Type: Notice
Date: 2017-04-03
Agency: Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health
Center for Scientific Review; Notice of Closed Meetings
Document Number: 2017-06402
Type: Notice
Date: 2017-04-03
Agency: Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health
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