[Federal Register: October 21, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 203)]
[Notices]               
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

 
National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics: Meeting

    Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, the Department of 
Health and Human Services announces the following advisory committee 
meetings.
    Name: National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS).
    Times and Dates: 9:00 a.m.-5:p.m., November 3, 1999.
    Place: Holiday Inn, Georgetown, 2101 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, 
Washington, DC
    Status: Open
    Purpose: A one day meeting of the National Committee on Vital 
and Health Statistics is planned for November 3, 1999. The meeting 
will focus on a variety of health data policy issues. Department 
officials will update the Committee on recent activities of the HHS 
Data Council and the status of HHS activities in implementing the 
administrative simplication provisions of Public Law 104-191, the 
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). 
The Committee also will discuss its draft report on Medicaid managed 
care data issues, as well as possible NCVHS comments on forthcoming 
HIPAA Notices of Proposed Rulemaking relating to standards for 
claims attachments, health information privacy, and other proposed 
rules.

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    All topics are tentative and subject to change. Prior to the 
meeting, please check the NCVHS web site, where a detailed agenda 
will be posted when available.
    Contact Person for More Information: Substantive information as 
well as summaries of NCVHS meetings and a roster of committee 
members may be obtained by visiting the NCVHS website (http://
aspe.os.dhhs.gov/ncvhs) where an agenda for the meeting will be 
posted when available. Additional information may be obtained by 
calling James Scanlon, NCVHS Executive Staff Director Office of the 
Assistance Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, DHHS, Room 440-D, 
Humphrey Building, 200 Independence Avenue SW Washington, DC 20201, 
telephone (202) 690-7100, or Marjorie S. Greenberg, Executive 
Secretary, NCVHS, NCHS, CDC, Room 1100, Presidential Building, 6525 
Belcrest Road, Hyattsville, Maryland 20782, telephone (301) 436-
4253.

    Notes: In the interest of security, the Department has 
instituted stringent procedures for entrance to the Hubert H. 
Humphrey Building by non-government employees. Thus, individuals 
without a government identification card may need to have the guard 
call for an escort to the meeting room.

    Dated: October 14, 1999.
James Scanlon,
Director, Division of Data Policy.
[FR Doc. 99-27438 Filed 10-20-99; 8:45 am]
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