[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 38 (Monday, March 1, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12004-12005]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-04130]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services


Notice of Withdrawal of Development of Computed Tomography (CT) 
Image Quality and Safety Hospital Measures Funding Opportunity

AGENCY: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Department of 
Health and Human Services (HHS).

ACTION: Withdrawal notice.

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SUMMARY: This notice withdraws the ``Development of Computed Tomography 
(CT) Image Quality and Safety Hospital Measures'' notice that published 
in the Federal Register on January 5, 2021. That notice announced a 
funding opportunity to seek an application for a single source, 
cooperative agreement, to develop a radiology electronic clinical 
quality measure(s) (eCQM) for the following CMS hospital programs: 
Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program (IQR); Hospital Outpatient 
Quality Reporting Program (OQR); and Promoting Interoperability Program 
for Eligible Hospitals and Critical Access Hospitals--formerly 
Meaningful Use (PI). CMS will no longer provide support through a 
cooperative agreement in its planning, technical assistance, and 
reporting needs related to submission of a fully developed and tested 
radiology measures to the 2021 Measures Under Consideration (MUC) List 
in May 2021.

DATES: The notice published at 86 FR 306 on January 5, 2021, is 
withdrawn as of February 25, 2021.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 
    Janis Grady, (410) 786-7217, for programmatic questions or 
concerns.
    Monica Anderson, (410) 786-2988, for administrative and compliance 
concerns.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background

    CMS has determined that current delays will not allow adequate time 
for the measures to be developed to meet internal deadlines, as such 
the determination is made to withdraw the January 5, 2021 Federal 
Register notice.
    CMS will no longer provide support through a single source 
cooperative agreement in its planning, technical assistance, and 
reporting needs related to submission of a fully developed and tested 
radiology measures to the 2021 Measures Under Consideration (MUC) List 
in May 2021.

II. Provisions of the Notice

    This notice withdraws the solicitation notice that we published in 
the Federal Register on January 5, 2021. For this Notice of Funding 
Opportunity, CMS will no longer accept an application for development 
of radiology electronic clinical quality measures (eCQM) that fill an 
existing gap or need and are high impact.

III. Collection of Information Requirements

    This document does not impose information collection requirements, 
that is, reporting, recordkeeping or third-party disclosure 
requirements. Consequently, there is no need for review by the Office 
of Management and Budget under the authority of the Paperwork Reduction 
Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.).
    The Acting Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid 
Services (CMS), Elizabeth Richter, having reviewed and approved this 
document, authorizes Lynette Wilson, who is the Federal Register 
Liaison, to electronically sign this document for purposes of 
publication in the Federal Register.

    Authority: Programmatic Authority of the Social Security Act, 
Titles XI, XVIII, XIX, XXI.


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    Dated: February 24, 2021.
Lynette Wilson,
Federal Liaison, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
[FR Doc. 2021-04130 Filed 2-25-21; 8:45 am]
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