Federal Register Notice
3/23/98
(63 FR 13858)

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 meeting.

Name: National Committee on Vital and health Statistics (NCVHS), Subcommittee on Population-Specific Issues.

Times and Dates: 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., April 14, 1998; 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m., April 15, 1998.

Place: Conference Room E-275C, Low Rise, John F. Kennedy Federal Building, 100 Cambridge Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02203.

Status: Open.

Purpose The Subcommittee is in the process of examining a number of data needs and issues associated with Medicaid managed care. The purpose of this site visit is to examine the experience of Massachusetts in implementing, evaluating and monitoring the State's Medicaid Managed Care program with special attention to data needs, data systems, data uses and data issues. Presentations are planned involving representatives of State agencies, providers, plans, and patient advocacy groups who will describe their data needs and issues relating to Medicaid managed care.

Contact Person for More Information: Substantive program information as well as a roster of committee members may be obtained from Carolyn Rimes, lead Subcommittee staff, health Care Financing Administration, DHHS, 7500 Security Boulevard, C-3-21-06, Baltimore, Maryland 21244-1850, telephone (410)786-6620, or Marjorie S. Greenberg, Executive Secretary, NCVHS, NCHS, CDC, Room 1100, Presidential Building, 6525 Belcrest Road, Hyattsville, Maryland 20782, telephone 301-436-7050. Additional information about the full Committee is available on the NCVHS website, where the tentative agenda for the Subcommittee meeting will also be posted when available: http://aspe.os.dhhs.gov/ncvhs.

Dated: March 13, 1998.

James Scanlon, Director, Division of Data Policy.

[FR Doc. 98-7359 Filed 3-20-98; 8:45 am]