Department of Health and Human Services March 1, 2021 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

Proposed Data Collection Submitted for Public Comment and Recommendations
Document Number: 2021-04179
Type: Notice
Date: 2021-03-01
Agency: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Health and Human Services
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of its continuing effort to reduce public burden and maximize the utility of government information, invites the general public and other Federal agencies the opportunity to comment on a proposed and/or continuing information collection, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. This notice invites comment on a proposed information collection project titled Cause-Specific Absenteeism in Schools and Evaluation of Influenza Transmission within Student Households. This collection is designed as an evaluation of cause- specific absenteeism in school and evaluation of influenza and SARS- CoV-2 within student households.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; Notice of Closed Meeting
Document Number: 2021-04176
Type: Notice
Date: 2021-03-01
Agency: Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health
Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Application From the Accreditation Commission for Health Care (ACHC) for Continued Approval of its Home Health Agency Accreditation Program
Document Number: 2021-04169
Type: Notice
Date: 2021-03-01
Agency: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Department of Health and Human Services
This final notice announces our decision to approve The Accreditation Commission for Health Care (ACHC) for continued recognition as a national accrediting organization for home health agencies (HHAs) that wish to participate in the Medicare or Medicaid programs. An HHA that participates in Medicaid must also meet the Medicare conditions of participation (CoPs).
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood Performance Measures and Additional Data Collection (New Collection)
Document Number: 2021-04162
Type: Notice
Date: 2021-03-01
Agency: Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Family Assistance (OFA) has had administrative responsibility for federal funding of programs that strengthen families through healthy marriage and relationship education and responsible fatherhood programming since 2006, through the Healthy Marriage (HM) and Responsible Fatherhood (RF) Grant Programs. ACF required the 2015 cohort of HMRF granteeswhich received 5-year grants in September 2015to collect and report performance measures about program operations, services, and clients served (OMB #0970-0460). A performance measures data collection system called nFORM (Information, Family Outcomes, Reporting, and Management) was implemented with the 2015 cohort to improve the efficiency of data collection and reporting and the quality of data. This system allows for streamlined and standardized submission of grantee performance data through regular progress reports and supports grantee-led and federal research projects. ACF will continue performance measure and other data collection activities for the HMRF grant program with a new cohort of grantees who received 5-year awards in September 2020. ACF is requesting comment on a new data collection to support these activities with the 2020 HMRF grantee cohort. ACF has made changes to the previous cohort's data collection instruments and performance reports for use in the new cohort. This new grantee cohort is expected to begin collecting performance measure data and reporting to ACF in April 2021.
Notice of Withdrawal of Development of Computed Tomography (CT) Image Quality and Safety Hospital Measures Funding Opportunity
Document Number: 2021-04130
Type: Notice
Date: 2021-03-01
Agency: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Department of Health and Human Services
This notice withdraws the ``Development of Computed Tomography (CT) Image Quality and Safety Hospital Measures'' notice that published in the Federal Register on January 5, 2021. That notice announced a funding opportunity to seek an application for a single source, cooperative agreement, to develop a radiology electronic clinical quality measure(s) (eCQM) for the following CMS hospital programs: Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program (IQR); Hospital Outpatient Quality Reporting Program (OQR); and Promoting Interoperability Program for Eligible Hospitals and Critical Access Hospitalsformerly Meaningful Use (PI). CMS will no longer provide support through a cooperative agreement in its planning, technical assistance, and reporting needs related to submission of a fully developed and tested radiology measures to the 2021 Measures Under Consideration (MUC) List in May 2021.
Current List of HHS-Certified Laboratories and Instrumented Initial Testing Facilities Which Meet Minimum Standards To Engage in Urine and Oral Fluid Drug Testing for Federal Agencies
Document Number: 2021-04116
Type: Notice
Date: 2021-03-01
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 (IITFs) currently certified to meet the standards of the Mandatory Guidelines for Federal Workplace Drug Testing Programs using Urine or Oral Fluid (Mandatory Guidelines).
National Institute of Mental Health; Notice of Closed Meetings
Document Number: 2021-04071
Type: Notice
Date: 2021-03-01
Agency: Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health
Government-Owned Inventions; Availability for Licensing
Document Number: 2021-04070
Type: Notice
Date: 2021-03-01
Agency: Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, is contemplating the grant of sublicensable patent licenses to Simon Fraser University (``Simon Fraser''), a non-profit university located in British Columbia, Canada, and Le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (``CNRS''), a public scientific and technological establishment located in France, its rights to the inventions and patents listed in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this notice.
Government-Owned Inventions; Availability for Licensing
Document Number: 2021-04069
Type: Notice
Date: 2021-03-01
Agency: Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health
The inventions listed below are owned by an agency of the U.S. Government and are available for licensing to achieve expeditious commercialization of results of federally-funded research and development.
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