[Federal Register: December 29, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 249)]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Care Financing Administration

 
Office of Strategic Planning; Statement of Organization, 
Functions, and Delegations of Authority

    Part F of the Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations 
of Authority for the Department of Health and Human Services, Health 
Care Financing Administration (HCFA), (Federal Register, Vol. 63, No. 
45, p. 11448 dated Monday, March 9, 1998 is amended to reflect a 
functional realignment in the Office of Strategic Planning. The 
realignment moves the international communications function from the 
Office of Professional Relations, Center for Health Plans and Providers 
to the Office of Strategic Planning (OSP). The purpose of the 
realignment is to consolidate HCFA's international communications 
function within OSP to better serve the needs of the international 
community and intergovernmental agencies.
    The specific amendments to part F are described below:
    Section F.20., (Functions) is amended to read as follows:
4. Office of Strategic Planning (FAK)
    <bullet> Develops and manages the long-term strategic planning 
process for the Agency; responsible for the Agency's conformance with 
the Strategic Plan requirements of the Government Performance and 
Results Act (GPRA).
    <bullet> Provides analytic support and information to the 
Administrator and the Executive Council needed to establish Agency 
goals and directions.
    <bullet> Performs environmental scanning, identifying, evaluating, 
and reporting emerging trends in health care delivery and financing and 
their interactions with Agency programs.
    <bullet> Manages strategic, crosscutting initiatives.
    <bullet> Designs and conducts research and evaluations of health 
care programs, studying their impacts on beneficiaries, providers, 
plans, States and other partners and customers, designing and assessing 
potential improvements, and developing new measurement tools.
    <bullet> Coordinates all Agency demonstration activities, including 
development of the research and demonstration annual plan, evaluation 
of all Agency demonstrations, and assistance to other components in the 
design of demonstrations and studies.
    <bullet> Manages assigned demonstrations, including Federal review, 
approval, and oversight; coordinates and participates with departmental 
components in experimental health care delivery projects.
    <bullet> Develops research, demonstration, and other publications 
and papers related to health care issues.
    <bullet> Serves as contact in HCFA for international visitors. 
Responds to requests from intergovernmental agencies and the 
international community for information related to the United States 
health care system.

    Dated: November 23, 1999.
Nancy-Ann Min DeParle,
Administrator, Health Care Financing Administration.
[FR Doc. 99-33746 Filed 12-28-99; 8:45 am]
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