Department of Health and Human Services November 21, 2018 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities (PCPID) will host a webinar/conference call for its members to discuss the potential topics of the Committee's 2019 Report to the President. All the PCPID meetings, in any format, are open to the public. This virtual meeting will be conducted in a discussion format.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing that a proposed collection of information has been submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.

This notice is to inform the public that the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) intends to award $500,000 (total costs) for up to five years to CADCA for the National Anti-Drug Coalitions Training and Workforce Development Grant. Under this initiative, CADCA will provide training to state and community prevention leaders, including members of anti-drug community coalitions from around the country who are committed to addressing the evolving needs of the behavioral health field, and promote workforce development. Training and workforce development activities supported through this grant include SAMHSA's Prevention Day, the CADCA National Leadership Forum, and CADCA's Mid-Year Training Institute. These activities aim to disseminate knowledge and transfer state-of-the-art information, assisting state and community leaders in developing and implementing evidence-based programs, practices, and policies aligned with the 21st Century Cures Act, the Comprehensive Addition and Recovery Act, the President's Commission on combating drug addiction and the opioid crisis, and other national substance abuse prevention goals, outcomes, and efforts, including underage drinking prevention. This is not a formal request for applications. Assistance will be provided only to CADCA based on the receipt of a satisfactory application that is approved by an independent review group. Funding Opportunity Title: SP-19-002. Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number: 93.243. Authority: Section 516 of the Public Health Services Act, as amended.

This final rule with comment period revises the Medicare hospital outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) and the Medicare ambulatory surgical center (ASC) payment system for CY 2019 to implement changes arising from our continuing experience with these systems. In this final rule with comment period, we describe the changes to the amounts and factors used to determine the payment rates for Medicare services paid under the OPPS and those paid under the ASC payment system. In addition, this final rule with comment period updates and refines the requirements for the Hospital Outpatient Quality Reporting (OQR) Program and the ASC Quality Reporting (ASCQR) Program. In addition, we are updating the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) Survey measure under the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) Program by removing the Communication about Pain questions; and retaining two measures that were proposed for removal, the Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI) Outcome Measure and Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infection (CLABSI) Outcome Measure, in the PPS-Exempt Cancer Hospital Quality Reporting (PCHQR) Program beginning with the FY 2021 program year.