Fiscal Year 2001: Program Support

Purpose and Method of Operation

This activity supports the overall direction and management of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. This includes the formulation of policies and program objectives; and administrative management and services activities.

Funding Summary

Authorizing Legislation—Section 30l and Title IX of the Public Health Service Act
                                       2000
	              1999            Final            2001            Increase or
                     Actual       Appropriation      Estimate            Decrease
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Budget             $2,341,000      $2,484,000           $0              -$2,484,000
authority             ($0)            ($0)         ($2,500,000)        (+$2,500,000)
	 				
FTEs                   41              42                42                 -

Funding History

Funding for the Research on Health Costs, Quality, and Outcomes program during the last 5 years has been as follows:

1997.........................2,230,000 (41 FTEs)
1998.........................2,230,000 (41 FTEs)
1999.........................2,341,000 (41 FTEs)
2000.........................2,484,000 (42 FTEs)
2001.........................2,500,000 (42 FTEs)

Rationale for the Budget Request

The fiscal year 2001 Budget Request for Program Support provides for current services including mandatory increases for annualization of the fiscal year 2000 pay raise, the fiscal year 2001 pay raise, and inflation.

Current as of February 2000


Internet Citation:

Program Support. From: Justification for Budget Estimates for Appropriations Committees, Fiscal Year 2001. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/about/cj2001/cjprog01.htm


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