15580 Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 43 / Monday, March 4, 2024 / Notices 

Research Advisory Committee, National 

Institute for Occupational Safety and 

Health, Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention, 626 Cochrans Mill Road, 

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15236. 

Telephone: (412) 386–5688; Email: 

SMischler@cdc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Purpose: The Mine Safety and Health 

Research Advisory Committee is 

charged with providing advice to the 

Secretary, Department of Health and 

Human Services; the Director, Centers 

for Disease Control and Prevention; and 

the Director, National Institute for 

Occupational Safety and Health 

(NIOSH), on priorities in mine safety 

and health research, including grants 

and contracts for such research, 30 

U.S.C. 812(b)(2), Section 102(b)(2). 

Matters To Be Considered: The agenda 

will include discussions on NIOSH 

mining safety and health research 

organizational structure, capabilities, 

projects, and outcomes, as well as a 

verbal report from the Mace 

Development Workgroup. The meeting 

will also include an update from the 

NIOSH Associate Deputy Director, Mine 

Safety and Research. Agenda items are 

subject to change as priorities dictate. 

Public Participation 

Written Public Comment: The public 

may submit written comments or 

questions in advance of the meeting, to 

the Designated Federal Officer (see FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT above). 

Written comments received in advance 

of the meeting will be included in the 

official record of the meeting, and 

questions will be answered during the 

oral comment period open to public 

participation. 

Oral Public Comment: The meeting 

will include time for members of the 

public to make an oral comment. The 

public comment session will be held on 

April 17, 2024, at 3:30 p.m., EDT, or the 

conclusion of the planned 

presentations, whichever comes first. 

Members of the public will be allocated 

5 to 10 minutes each for presentations 

or comments, as a function of the 

number of commenters. 

The Director, Office of Strategic 

Business Initiatives, Office of the Chief 

Operating Officer, Centers for Disease 

Control and Prevention, 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. 

Kalwant Smagh, 

Director, Office of Strategic Business 

Initiatives, Office of the Chief Operating 

Officer, Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

Meeting of the Advisory Board on 

Radiation and Worker Health, National 

Institute for Occupational Safety and 

Health 

AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC), Department of Health 

and Human Services (HHS). 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act, the 

Centers for Disease Control (CDC) 

announces a meeting of the Advisory 

Board on Radiation and Worker Health 

(ABRWH or the Advisory Board). This 

meeting is open to the public, with a 

public comment period. The public is 

welcome to submit written comments in 

advance of the meeting, to the contact 

person below. Written comments 

received in advance of the meeting will 

be included in the official record of the 

meeting. The public is also welcomed to 

listen to the meeting by joining the 

teleconference (information below). The 

audio conference line has 150 ports for 

callers. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

April 17, 2024, from 9:15 a.m. to 6 p.m., 

EDT. A public comment session will be 

held at 5 p.m. and will conclude at 6 

p.m. or following the final call for 

public comment, whichever comes first. 

Written comments must be received 

on or before April 10, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by mail to: Rashaun Roberts, National 

Institute for Occupational Safety and 

Health, 1090 Tusculum Avenue, MS C– 

24, Cincinnati, Ohio 45226. 

Meeting Information: The USA tollfree dial-in numbers are: +1 669 254 

5252 US (San Jose); +1 646 828 7666 US 

(New York). The Meeting ID is: 160 

6763 3819 and the Passcode is: 

98685439; Web conference by Zoom 

meeting connection: https://

cdc.zoomgov.com/j/16067633819?pwd=

RUdiYXlZZHFKanpJOHZrcG

JIbTlaZz09. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Rashaun Roberts, Ph.D., Designated 

Federal Officer, National Institute for 

Occupational Safety and Health, Centers 

for Disease Control and Prevention, 

1090 Tusculum Avenue, Mailstop C–24, 

Cincinnati, Ohio 45226, Telephone 

(513) 533–6800, Toll Free 1(800) 232– 

4636, Email: ocas@cdc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

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 Centers for Disease 

Control and Prevention (CDC). The 

National Institute for Occupational 

Safety and Health implements this 

responsibility for CDC. 

The charter was issued on August 3, 

2001, renewed at appropriate intervals, 

and rechartered under Executive Order 

14109 on March 22, 2022, and will 

terminate on March 22, 2024. 

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, advising the Secretary 

on whether there is a class of employees 

at any Department of Energy (DOE) 

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 Considered: The agenda 

will include discussions on the 


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1https://nppes.cms.hhs.gov/#/. 

2The information collection request is currently 

approved under OMB control number 0938–0931. 

(https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ 

DownloadNOA?requestID=311118). 

3The Electronic File Interchange (EFI), also 

referred to as ‘‘bulk enumeration,’’ is a process by 

which a provider or group of providers can have an 

EFIO apply for NPIs on their behalf. EFIOs are 

approved by CMS through a certification process 

and submit information in a format designated by 

CMS; https://www.cms.gov/medicare/regulationsguidance/administrative-simplification/efi. 

following: NIOSH Program Update; 

Department of Labor Program Update; 

Department of Energy Program Update; 

SEC Petitions Update; Procedures 

Review Finalization/Document 

Approvals, Dose Reconstruction Review 

Methods and TBD 6000 Workgroup 

updates, Metals and Control Corp SEC 

Petition 236 (Attleboro, MA; January 

1968–March 1997), and a Board Work 

Session. Agenda items are subject to 

change as priorities dictate. 

The Director, Office of Strategic 

Business Initiatives, Office of the Chief 

Operating Officer, Centers for Disease 

Control and Prevention, 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. 

Kalwant Smagh, 

Director, Office of Strategic Business 

Initiatives, Office of the Chief Operating 

Officer, Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid 

Services 

[CMS–0059–N] 

RIN 0938–ZB82 

National Plan and Provider 

Enumeration System (NPPES) Data 

Changes 

AGENCY: Centers for Medicare & 

Medicaid Services (CMS), Department 

of Health and Human Services (HHS). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice provides 

information on changes to data elements 

that providers are required to submit to 

the National Plan and Provider 

Enumeration System (NPPES) to obtain 

and maintain a National Provider 

Identifier (NPI). The changes to the 

required data elements affect the data 

that is made available to the public from 

NPPES in downloadable files and in a 

query-only database on the internet. 

DATES: This notice is applicable on 

April 3, 2024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Christopher S. Wilson, (410) 786–3178 

or Beth A. Karpiak, (312) 353–1351. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

A. Legislative and Regulatory 

Background 

Through subtitle F of title II of the 

Health Insurance Portability and 

Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), 

Congress added Part C, ‘‘Administrative 

Simplification’’ to title XI of the Social 

Security Act (the Act). (Pub. L. 104– 

191). Part C of title XI consists of 

sections 1171 through 1179 of the Act. 

These sections define various terms and 

impose requirements on the Secretary of 

the Department of Health and Human 

Services (HHS) (hereinafter referred to 

as the Secretary), health plans, health 

care clearinghouses, and certain health 

care providers concerning the adoption 

of standards and implementation 

specifications relating to health 

information. The Secretary delegated 

authority for administering and 

enforcing HIPAA Administrative 

Simplification provisions related to 

transactions, code sets, unique 

identifiers, and operating rules, 

implemented in 45 CFR parts 160 and 

162, to the Centers for Medicare & 

Medicaid Services (CMS) (see 68 FR 

60694). 

Section 1173(b) of the Act requires the 

Secretary to adopt a standard unique 

health identifier for each individual, 

employer, health plan, and health care 

provider for use in the health care 

system and to specify the purposes for 

which the identifiers may be used. On 

May 7, 1998 (63 FR 25320), HHS 

proposed a standard unique health 

identifier for health care providers and 

requirements concerning its 

implementation (hereinafter referred to 

as the National Provider Identifier (NPI) 

proposed rule). On January 23, 2004 (69 

FR 3434), HHS published a final rule 

that adopted the NPI as the standard 

unique health identifier for health care 

providers (hereinafter referred to as the 

NPI final rule). The NPI final rule 

established that HIPAA covered entities 

must use NPIs to identify health care 

providers in electronic transactions for 

which the Secretary has adopted a 

standard. Covered entities include 

health plans, health care clearinghouses, 

and health care providers who transmit 

any health information in electronic 

form in connection with a transaction 

for which the Secretary has adopted a 

standard. 

B. Operational and System Background 

The NPI final rule established that 

NPIs are assigned to health care 

providers through the National Provider 

System (NPS). The preamble to the NPI 

final rule included an ‘‘NPS Data 

Elements Table’’ (69 FR 3457) that listed 

the data elements HHS expected to 

collect about a health care provider and 

include in the NPS. The NPS, now 

called the National Plan and Provider 

Enumeration System (NPPES),1

uniquely identifies health care 

providers through an application 

process and assigns NPIs. NPPES creates 

a record for each health care provider to 

whom it assigns an NPI. The records are 

updated when health care providers 

furnish updates to NPPES. 

Health care providers are categorized 

by NPPES into two types: Individuals, 

such as physicians; and organizations, 

such as hospitals. A health care 

provider may apply for an NPI in one 

of three ways, by: (1) completing form 

CMS–10114 (NPI Application/Update 

Form) and mailing it to NPPES; (2) 

applying online at https://NPPES.cms.

hhs.gov/; or (3) having an approved 

Electronic File Interchange Organization 

(EFIO) submit its NPI application data 

to NPPES in an electronic format 

defined by HHS.2 3 Health care 

providers who apply online have 

electronic access to the information in 

their own NPPES records by using user 

identifiers and passwords they select. 

This access allows those health care 

providers to submit updates to their 

NPPES data electronically via the 

internet. 

The NPI final rule requires that the 

NPS (now NPPES) disseminate data in 

response to approved requests. 

Following publication of the NPI final 

rule, CMS, as the administrator of 

NPPES, published a notice in the May 

30, 2007 Federal Register (72 FR 30011) 

describing the data dissemination 

strategy for NPI data maintained in 

NPPES and the process by which CMS 

would carry out the strategy (hereinafter 

referred to as the NPPES Data 

Dissemination notice). The NPPES Data 

Dissemination notice included a list of 

data elements that CMS determined are 

required to be disclosed under the 

Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) (see 

72 FR 30012). 

The health care industry needs 

NPPES health care provider data to 

know the NPIs of health care providers 

to be able to submit HIPAA-compliant 

health care transactions. In anticipation 


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