Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 155 / Friday, August 10, 2012 / Notices 47847 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Agency for Healthcare Research and 

Quality 

Meeting of the National Advisory 

Council on Healthcare Research and 

Quality Subcommittee on Quality 

Measures for Children’s Healthcare 

AGENCY: Agency for Healthcare Research 

and Quality, HHS. 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with section 

10(a) of the Federal Advisory Committee 

Act, 5 U.S.C. App. 2, this notice 

announces a meeting of the National 

Advisory Council on Healthcare 

Research and Quality Subcommittee on 

Quality Measures for Children’s 

Healthcare. 

DATES: The open meeting will be held 

on Wednesday, September 12, 2012, 

from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: Bethesda Marriott Hotel, 

5151 Pooks Hill Road, Bethesda, 

Maryland 20814. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Preyanka Makadia, Office of Extramural 

Research, Education, and Priority 

Populations (OEREP), Agency for 

Healthcare Research and Quality, 540 

Gaither Rd., Rockville, MD 20850, 

Email: PREYANKA.MAKADIA@AHRQ.

hhs.gov, Phone: (301) 427–1538. 

If sign language interpretation or other 

reasonable accommodation for a 

disability is needed, please contact 

Preyanka Makadia, no later than August 

15, 2012. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Purpose 

The National Advisory Council for 

Healthcare Research and Quality (NAC) 

was established in accordance with 

Section 9341 of the Public Health 

Service Act, 42 U.S.C. 299c. In 

accordance with its statutory mandate, 

the Council is to advise the Secretary of 

the Department of Health and Human 

Services (DHHS) and the Director, 

Agency for Healthcare Research and 

Quality (AHRQ), on matters related to 

AHRQ’s conduct of its mission 

including providing guidance on (A) 

priorities for healthcare research, (B) the 

field of health care research including 

training needs and information 

dissemination on healthcare quality and 

(C) the role of the Agency in light of 

private sector activity and opportunities 

for public private partnerships. The 

Council is composed of members of the 

public, appointed by the Secretary, and 

Federal ex-officio members specified in 

the authorizing legislation. 

2. Background 

AHRQ’s NAC has established a 

Subcommittee on Quality Measures for 

Children’s Healthcare (SNAC). Section 

401(a) of the Children’s Health 

Insurance Program Reauthorization Act 

of 2009 (CHIPRA), Public Law 111–3, 

amended the Social Security Act to 

enact section 1139A (42 U.S.C. 1320b– 

9a). Section 1139A(b) charged the 

Department of Health and Human 

Services (HHS) with improving 

pediatric health care quality measures. 

The Secretary of DHHS posted the 

initial core set of children’s health care 

quality measures for public comment on 

December 29, 2009, in Volume 74, No. 

248 of the Federal Register (http://OIG.

hhs.gov/authorities/docs/2010/fr notice 

12302009.pdf). The Subcommittee was 

created to provide advice to the NAC as 

AHRQ undertakes responsibilities to 

improve the initial core quality measure 

set and develop and test a portfolio of 

evidence-based, consensus pediatric 

quality measures for potential use by 

public and private programs. AHRQ is 

working closely with the Centers for 

Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) 

in implementing these provisions, 

including public posting of 

improvements to the initial core quality 

measure set and other CHIPRA purposes 

(i.e., for use by public and private 

programs other than, or in addition to, 

Medicaid and CHIP). For more 

information about AHRQ’s role in 

carrying out the quality provisions of 

CHIPRA, see http://www.AHRQ.gov/

CHIPRA. A roster of the Subcommittee 

members is available at http://www.

AHRQ.gov/CHIPRA/QMSNACLIST12.

htm. The September 12, 2012 meeting 

will be held as a part of this effort. 

The Secretary will post an improved 

and enhanced core set of health care 

quality measures for voluntary use by 

Medicaid and CHIP by Jan 1, 2013, and 

annually thereafter. On February 24, 

2012, AHRQ solicited public 

nomination of children’s health care 

quality measures for inclusion in the 

CHIPRA 2013 Improved Core Set of 

Health Care Quality Measures. 

On September 12, 2012, the SNAC 

will assess measures submitted by the 

public in response to a solicitation 

posted on February 24, 2012 (CHIPRA 

Federal Register notice number 2012– 

4267) (http://www.GPO.gov/fdsys/pkg/

FR-2012-02-24/pdf/2012-4267.pdf), as 

well as measures submitted by AHRQ– 

CMS Pediatric Quality Measures 

Program Centers of Excellence (see 

http://www.AHRQ.gov/CHIPRA/

PQMPFACT.htm for details). AHRQ will 

solicit measures again in 2013 and 2014 

and the SNAC will meet in September 

of 2013 and 2014 to review these 

measures. 

The agenda for the September 12, 

2012 meeting will be available on the 

AHRQ Web site at http://www.AHRQ.

gov/CHIPRA no later than September 5, 

2012. 

Dated: August 2, 2012. 

Carolyn M. Clancy, 

Director. 

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of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for 

opportunity for public comment on 

proposed data collection projects, the 

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