Department of Health and Human Services January 2019 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Secretary is amending the Declaration issued pursuant to the Public Health Service Act on December 3, 2014, as amended on December 1, 2015 and December 2, 2016, to update the term ``Ebola Virus Disease'' to ``Ebola disease'' (EBOD) throughout the declaration and to clarify the definition of EBOD. The amendment also expands the Covered Countermeasures beyond the three vaccines listed in prior declarations but limit coverage to Covered Countermeasures that are directly supported by the United States (U.S.) Federal Government, consistent with the terms of the Declaration, and is republishing the Declaration in its entirety as amended.

This document corrects technical errors that appeared in the final rule published in the Federal Register on November 23, 2018 entitled ``Medicare Program; Revisions to Payment Policies under the Physician Fee Schedule and Other Revisions to Part B for CY 2019; Medicare Shared Savings Program Requirements; Quality Payment Program; Medicaid Promoting Interoperability Program; Quality Payment Program Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstance Policy for the 2019 MIPS Payment Year; provisions from the Medicare Shared Savings Program Accountable Care Organizations Pathways to Success; and Expanding the Use of Telehealth Services for the Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder under the Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment (SUPPORT) for Patients and Communities Act.''