Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announces the following advisory committee meeting.
| NAME: | National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS), |
TIME AND DATE: |
April 6, 2005 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. April 7, 2005 8:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. |
| PLACE: | Hubert H. Humphrey Building |
| STATUS: | Open. |
| PURPOSE: | The meeting will focus on HIPAA implementation, with testimony from providers, payers, and others concerning the "return on investment" from HIPAA implementation to date. The Subcommittee also will review next steps needed to develop input to various NCVHS reports, such as the Committee's annual report to Congress. |
| CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: | Substantive program information as well as summaries of meetings and a roster of Committee members may be obtained from Maria Friedman, Health Insurance Specialist, Security and Standards Group, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, MS: C5-24-04, 7500 Security Boulevard, Baltimore, MD 21244-1850, telephone: 410-786-6333 or Marjorie S. Greenberg, Executive Secretary, NCVHS, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Room 1100, 3311 Toledo Road, Hyattsville, Maryland 20782, telephone: (301) 458- 4245. Information also is available on the NCVHS home page of the HHS website: http://www.ncvhs.hhs.gov/ where an agenda for the meeting will be posted when available. |
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| Date: ________________ | _______________________________________________ |
James Scanlon |