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at http://www.pso.AHRQ.GOV/formats/ 

commonfmt.htm. AHRQ is committed to 

continuing refinement of the Common 

Formats, and welcomes questions from 

prospective meeting participants and 

interested individuals on the technical 

specifications. These questions should 

be emailed to support@psoppc.ORG no 

later than March 21, 2012. AHRQ will 

use the input received at this meeting to 

further update and refine the Common 

Formats. 

A summary of the meeting will be 

provided upon request. If you are 

unable to participate in the meeting and 

would like a copy of the summary, 

please send an email to 

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Dated: January 25, 2012. 

Carolyn M. Clancy, 

Director. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

Advisory Board on Radiation and 

Worker Health (ABRWH or Advisory 

Board), National Institute for 

Occupational Safety and Health 

(NIOSH) 

In accordance with section 10(a)(2) of 

the Federal Advisory Committee Act 

(Pub. L. 92–463), and pursuant to the 

requirements of 42 CFR 83.15(a), the 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC), announces the 

following meeting of the 

aforementioned committee: 

Board Public Meeting Times and 

Dates (All times are Pacific Time): 9:45 

a.m.–5 p.m., February 28, 2012. 8:15 

a.m.–6 p.m., February 29, 2012. 

Public Comment Times and Dates (All 

times are Pacific Time): 5 p.m.–6:30 

p.m.,* February 28, 2012. 

* Please note that the public comment 

periods may end before the times 

indicated, following the last call for 

comments. Members of the public who 

wish to provide public comments 

should plan to attend public comment 

sessions at the start times listed. 

Place: Waterfront Hotel, 10 

Washington Street, Oakland, California 

94607, Telephone: (510) 836–3800, Fax: 

(510) 832–5695, Audio Conference Call 

via FTS Conferencing, the USA toll-free 

number is 1–866–659–0537 with a pass 

code of 9933701. 

Status: Open to the public, limited 

only by the space available. The meeting 

space accommodates approximately 150 

people. 

Background: The Advisory Board was 

established under the Energy Employees 

Occupational Illness Compensation 

Program Act of 2000 to advise the 

President on a variety of policy and 

technical functions required to 

implement and effectively manage the 

new compensation program. Key 

functions of the Advisory Board include 

providing advice on the development of 

probability of causation guidelines 

which have been promulgated by the 

Department of Health and Human 

Services (HHS) as a final rule, advice on 

methods of dose reconstruction which 

have also been promulgated by HHS as 

a final rule, advice on the scientific 

validity and quality of dose estimation 

and reconstruction efforts being 

performed for purposes of the 

compensation program, and advice on 

petitions to add classes of workers to the 

Special Exposure Cohort (SEC). 

In December 2000, the President 

delegated responsibility for funding, 

staffing, and operating the Advisory 

Board to HHS, which subsequently 

delegated this authority to the CDC. 

NIOSH implements this responsibility 

for CDC. The charter was issued on 

August 3, 2001, renewed at appropriate 

intervals, and will expire on August 3, 

2013. 

Purpose: This Advisory Board is 

charged with (a) providing advice to the 

Secretary, HHS, on the development of 

guidelines under Executive Order 

13179; (b) providing advice to the 

Secretary, HHS, on the scientific 

validity and quality of dose 

reconstruction efforts performed for this 

program; and (c) upon request by the 

Secretary, HHS, advise the Secretary on 

whether there is a class of employees at 

any Department of Energy facility who 

were exposed to radiation but for whom 

it is not feasible to estimate their 

radiation dose, and on whether there is 

reasonable likelihood that such 

radiation doses may have endangered 

the health of members of this class. 

Matters To Be Discussed: The agenda 

for the Advisory Board meeting 

includes: NIOSH Program Update; 

Department of Labor (DOL) Program 

Update; Department of Energy (DOE) 

Program Update; NIOSH 10-Year 

Program Review Implementation; Status 

of Activities for Lawrence Berkeley 

National Laboratory and Stanford Linear 

Accelerator; SEC petitions for: Electro 

Metallurgical (Niagara Falls, NY), 

Hangar 481 (Kirtland Air Force Base); 

Weldon Spring Plant (Weldon Spring, 

MO), Sandia National Laboratories, 

Clinton Engineering Works (Oak Ridge, 

TN), Feed Materials Production Center 

(Fernald, Ohio), and Brookhaven 

National Laboratory; SEC Petition Status 

Updates; and Board Work Sessions. 

The agenda is subject to change as 

priorities dictate. 

In the event an individual cannot 

attend, written comments may be 

submitted in accordance with the 

redaction policy provided below. Any 

written comments received will be 

provided at the meeting and should be 

submitted to the contact person below 

well in advance of the meeting. 

Policy on Redaction of Board Meeting 

Transcripts (Public Comment): (1) If a 

person making a comment gives his or 

her name, no attempt will be made to 

redact that name. (2) NIOSH will take 

reasonable steps to ensure that 

individuals making public comment are 

aware of the fact that their comments 

(including their name, if provided) will 

appear in a transcript of the meeting 

posted on a public Web site. Such 

reasonable steps include: (a) A 

statement read at the start of each public 

comment period stating that transcripts 

will be posted and names of speakers 

will not be redacted; (b) A printed copy 

of the statement mentioned in (a) above 

will be displayed on the table where 

individuals sign up to make public 

comments; (c) A statement such as 

outlined in (a) above will also appear 

with the agenda for a Board Meeting 

when it is posted on the NIOSH Web 

site; (d) A statement such as in (a) above 

will appear in the Federal Register 

Notice that announces Board and 

Subcommittee meetings. (3) If an 

individual in making a statement 

reveals personal information (e.g., 

medical information) about themselves 

that information will not usually be 

redacted. The NIOSH FOIA coordinator 

will, however, review such revelations 

in accordance with the Freedom of 

Information Act and the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act and if deemed 

appropriate, will redact such 

information. (4) All disclosures of 

information concerning third parties 

will be redacted. (5) If it comes to the 

attention of the DFO that an individual 

wishes to share information with the 

Board but objects to doing so in a public 

forum, the Designated Federal Officer 

will work with that individual, in 

accordance with the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act, to find a way that the 

Board can hear such comments. 

Contact Person for More Information: 

Theodore Katz, M.P.A., Executive 

Secretary, NIOSH, CDC, 1600 Clifton 

Road NE., MS E–20, Atlanta, Georgia 

30333, Telephone: (513) 533–6800, toll 


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dcas@cdc.gov. 

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and Services Office, has been delegated 

the authority to sign Federal Register 

Notices pertaining to announcements of 

meetings and other committee 

management activities, for both the 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention and the Agency for Toxic 

Substances and Disease Registry. 

Dated: February 7, 2012. 

Elaine L. Baker, 

Director, Management Analysis and Services 

Office, Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid 

Services 

[CMS–1594–N] 

Medicare Program: Notice of Six 

Membership Appointments to the 

Advisory Panel on Hospital Outpatient 

Payment 

AGENCY: Centers for Medicare & 

Medicaid Services (CMS), Department 

of Health and Human Services (HHS). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces six 

new membership appointments to the 

Advisory Panel on Hospital Outpatient 

Payment (HOP, the Panel). The six 

appointments to the 19 member Panel 

will each serve a 4-year period. Five of 

the new members will have terms that 

begin on February 1, 2012 and 

continuing through January 31, 2016. 

The sixth member’s term will begin on 

August 1, 2012 and continuing through 

July 31, 2016. The purpose of the Panel 

is to advise the Secretary of the 

Department of Health and Human 

Services and the Administrator of the 

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid 

Services concerning the clinical 

integrity of the Ambulatory Payment 

Classification groups and their weights. 

The Panel also addresses and makes 

recommendations regarding supervision 

of outpatient services. The advice 

provided by the Panel will be 

considered as we prepare the annual 

updates for the hospital outpatient 

prospective payment system. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

additional information on the Panel 

meeting dates, agenda topics, copy of 

the charter, as well as updates to the 

Panel’s activities, search our Internet 

Web site: https://www.cms.gov/FACA/

05_AdvisoryPanelonAmbulatory

PaymentClassification

Groups.asp#TopOfPage. (Note: There is 

an UNDERSCORE after FACA/05_; there 

is no space.) 

For other information regarding the 

Panel, contact Paula Smith, the 

Designated Federal Officer at CMS, 

Center for Medicare, Hospital and 

Ambulatory Policy Group, Division of 

Outpatient Care, 7500 Security 

Boulevard, Mail Stop C4–05–13, 

Baltimore, MD 21244–1850, phone (410) 

786–4709. Information can also be 

obtained by contacting the CMS 

Advisory Committees’ Information Line 

at 1–877–449–5659 (toll free) and (410) 

786–9379 (local). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

The Secretary of the Department of 

Health and Human Services (the 

Secretary) is required by section 

1833(t)(9)(A) of the Social Security Act 

(the Act) (42 U.S.C. 1395l(t)(9)(A)) and 

section 222 of the Public Health Service 

Act (PHS Act) (42 U.S.C. 217a) to 

consult with an expert outside advisory 

panel on the clinical integrity of the 

Ambulatory Payment Classification 

groups and weights. The Advisory Panel 

on Hospital Outpatient Payment (HOP, 

the Panel) is governed by the provisions 

of the Federal Advisory Committee Act 

(FACA) (Pub. L. 92–463, as amended (5 

U.S.C. Appendix 2), which sets forth 

standards for the formation and use of 

advisory panels. The Panel Charter 

provides that the Panel shall meet up to 

3 times annually. We consider the 

technical advice provided by the Panel 

as we prepare the proposed and final 

rules to update the outpatient 

prospective payment system for the next 

calendar year. 

The Panel shall consist of a chair and 

up to 19 members who are full-time 

employees of hospitals, hospital 

systems, or other Medicare providers. 

The Secretary or a designee selects the 

Panel membership based upon either 

self-nominations or nominations 

submitted by Medicare providers and 

other interested organizations. New 

appointments are made in a manner that 

ensures a balanced membership under 

the FACA guidelines. 

The Panel presently consists of the 

following members and a Chair: (The 

asterisk [*] indicates a Panel member 

whose term expires on July 31, 2012). 

• Edith Hambrick, M.D., J.D., Chair, 

CMS Medical Officer. 

• Ruth L. Bush, M.D., M.P.H. 

• Kari S. Cornicelli, C.P.A., FHFMA. 

• Dawn L. Francis, M.D., M.H.S. 

• Kathleen Graham, R.N., M.S.H.A.* 

• David A. Halsey, M.D. 

• Brian D. Kavanagh, M.D., MPH. 

• Judith T. Kelly, R.H.I.T., R.H.I.A., 

C.C.S. 

• Scott Manaker, M.D., Ph.D. 

• John Marshall, CRA, RCC, CIRCC, 

RT(R), FAHRA. 

• Jacqueline Phillips. 

• Randall A. Oyer, M.D. 

• Daniel J. Pothen, M.S., RHIA, CHPS. 

• Gregory Przybylski, M.D. 

• Marianna V. Spanaki-Varela, MD, 

Ph.D., M.B.A. 

II. Provisions of the Notice 

We published a notice in the Federal 

Register on November 25, 2011, entitled 

‘‘Medicare Program; Renaming and 

Other Changes to the Advisory Panel on 

Hospital Outpatient Payment Charter 

(Formerly the Advisory Panel on 

Ambulatory Payment Classification 

Groups) and Request for Nominations’’ 

(76 FR 72708). The notice requested 

nominations to be added to the Panel by 

replacing one Panel member whose term 

expires on July 31, 2012; replacing one 

Panel member who resigned; and by 

adding four new Panel members (two of 

these designated as Critical Access 

Hospital representatives (see the 

November 30, 2011 final rule, (76 FR 

74363)) to address appropriate 

supervision level for hospital outpatient 

services. As a result of that November 

25, 2012 notice and the November 30, 

2011 final rule, we are announcing six 

new members to the Panel. Their 

appointments are for 4-year terms 

commencing on February 1, 2012 and 

August 1, 2012. 

New Appointments to the Panel—The 

new members of the Panel with terms 

beginning on February 1, 2012 and 

continuing through January 31, 2016 are 

as follows: 

• Lanny Copeland, M.D., 

• Jim Nelson, 

• Leah Osbahr, 

• Traci Rabine; and 

• Gale Walker 

The new member of the Panel with a 

term beginning on August 1, 2012, and 

continuing through July 31, 2016 is: 

• Karen Borman, M.D. 

III. Collection of Information 

Requirements 

This document does not impose 

information collection and 

recordkeeping requirements. 

Consequently, it need not be reviewed 

by the Office of Management and 

Budget under the authority of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 

U.S.C. 35). 

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

Program; No. 93.773 Medicare—Hospital 

Insurance Program; and No. 93.774, 


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