Office of the Secretary March 15, 2013 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

This notice is to advise interested parties of the termination of a Military Health System (MHS) demonstration project entitled ``Disease Management Demonstration Project for TRICARE Standard Beneficiaries.'' The demonstration provided disease management (DM) services to TRICARE Standard beneficiaries who are not eligible to receive some DM-like services under the basic benefit regulations. TRICARE began the demonstration project in March 2007 for Standard beneficiaries and this demonstration project has enabled the MHS to evaluate the programs and identify ways to improve the provision of effective services by detecting strengths and weaknesses of the programs, as well as evidence of best practices. As the TRICARE Management Activity (TMA) chose a phased approach, the demonstration was extended twice, on March 16, 2009 (74 FR 11089-11090), and again on March 4, 2011 (76 FR 12081-12082), to allow time for all program evaluations. TMA intends to continue to provide DM services to eligible TRICARE beneficiaries through strategies based on evidence-based best practices, beneficiary's needs, plan category, and location of health care provision.

The Department of the Interior is publishing this notice to advise the public of the availability of the fiscal year (FY) 2012 Service Contract Inventory and the FY 2011 Service Contract Inventory Report, in accordance with Section 743 of Division C of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2010 (Pub. L. 111-117). The inventory provides information on service contract actions over $25,000 that the Department made in FY 2012. The information is organized by function to show how contracted resources are distributed throughout the Department. The Department's analysis of its FY 2011 Service Contract inventory is summarized in the FY 2011 Service Contract Inventory report. The 2012 inventory and 2011 report were developed in accordance with guidance issued on December 19, 2011 and November 5, 2010, by the Office of Management and Budget's Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP). OFPP's guidance is available at https:// www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/procurement/memo/s ervice- contract-inventories-guidance-11052010.pdf. The Department of the Interior has posted its FY 2012 Service Contract Inventory and a summary of the 2011 inventory on the Department of the Interior homepage at the following link: https://www.doi.gov/pam/service- contract-inventory-report.cfm.