46300 Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 154 / Friday, August 8, 2008 / Notices 

Agency for Toxic Substances and 

Disease Registry. 

Daniel Riedford, 

Acting Director, Management Analysis and 

Services Office, Centers for Disease Control 

and Prevention. 

[FR Doc. E8–18284 Filed 8–7–08; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

Statement of Organization, Functions, 

and Delegations of Authority 

Part C (Centers for Disease Control 

and Prevention) of the Statement of 

Organization, Functions, and 

Delegations of Authority of the 

Department of Health and Human 

Services (45 FR 67772–76, dated 

October 14, 1980, and corrected at 45 FR 

69296, October 20, 1980, as amended 

most recently at 73 FR 35140, dated 

June 20, 2008) is amended to reflect the 

reorganization of the Office of the 

Director, Centers for Disease Control 

and Prevention. 

Section C–B, Organization and 

Functions, is hereby amended as 

follows: Delete in their entirety the titles 

and functional statements for the Office 

of Strategy and Innovation (CAM) and 

the Office of Chief of Public Health 

Practice (CAR) and insert the following: 

Office of Strategy and Innovation 

(CAM). The Office of Strategy and 

Innovation (OSI) serves as the focal 

point for accelerating the health impact 

of CDC’s work within and beyond CDC’s 

programs. In carrying out its mission, 

OSI: (1) Leads CDC’s efforts to develop, 

monitor, evaluate, and advance agency 

strategic direction, planning, and 

priorities; (2) fosters strategic excellence 

and innovation across the agency; (3) 

provides superior decision support to 

CDC’s executive leadership; (4) leads 

the development of health in all 

policies; (5) promotes the health, safety, 

and quality of life of women; and (6) 

improves the health of the public 

through law. 

Office of the Director (CAM1). (1) 

Develops, monitors, and advances 

CDC’s strategic direction, planning, and 

priorities; (2) provides leadership and 

vision for formulating and evaluating 

policy; (3) fosters strategic excellence 

and innovation across the agency; (4) 

applies knowledge management tools 

and decision support systems in 

allocation of resources and improves 

agency decision-making; (5) 

communicates key messages to CDC 

employees and partners about CDC’s 

strategic direction, planning, and 

priorities; and (6) works directly with 

the strategy and innovation officers 

within the coordinating centers to 

develop, monitor, and advance CDC 

strategic direction and priorities and 

institutionalize organizational change, 

improvement, and accountability. 

Office of Women’s Health (CAM12). 

The Office of Women’s Health (OWH) 

aims to promote and improve the 

health, safety, and quality of life of 

women. As a leader for women’s health 

issues at CDC, the Office of Women’s 

Health: (1) Advises the CDC Director on 

matters relating to women’s health 

research, programs, and strategies; (2) 

promotes the health and well-being of 

women; (3) communicates health 

information, research findings, and 

prevention strategies to a diverse group 

of providers, consumers, and 

organizations; (4) advances sound 

scientific knowledge for public health 

action, promotes the role of prevention, 

and works to improve the 

understanding of women’s health 

priorities; (5) fosters partnerships and 

collaborations within CDC and with 

other public and private organizations, 

agencies, institutions, and others to 

improve the health and safety of 

women; (6) publishes newsletters and 

other documents that highlight 

prevention programs, research findings, 

publications, health campaigns, health 

promotion strategies, and other 

information available at CDC; (7) leads 

CDC Women’s Health Committee by 

facilitating and coordinating agencywide efforts and enhancing channels for 

communication and cooperation; (8) 

supports the development of future 

women’s health and public health 

professionals through various training 

and student positions within the office; 

(9) prepares agency reports, briefing 

documents, and other materials 

addressing women’s health issues; (10) 

stimulates and supports prevention 

research, programs, and other activities 

through funding; (11) represents the 

agencies at meetings, committees, 

workgroups, conferences, and briefings; 

(12) serves as liaison for women’s health 

between CDC and other agencies and 

organizations; (13) develops 

opportunities for, promotes, and 

supports the agency as a resource for 

women’s health issues; and (14) 

provides assistance to state and local 

programs on women’s health issues. 

Public Health Law Program (CAM13). 

The mission of the Public Health Law 

Program is to improve the health of the 

public through law. The program: (1) 

Provides technical assistance to CDC 

centers and to extramural partners in 

developing their legal preparedness to 

address the full spectrum of health 

protection goals; (2) collaborates with 

CDC and extramural partners in 

developing tools for use in assessing 

and improving the public health legal 

preparedness of the health system; (3) 

strengthens the competencies of 

practitioners in public health, 

emergency management, law, and other 

sectors to apply law to improve public 

health; (4) supports and conducts 

applied research in public health law 

and translates findings into practice; (5) 

provides consultation and analysis in 

public health law to CDC programs and 

extramural constituents; (6) establishes 

partnerships among CDC and other 

organizations active in public health 

law and assists in strengthening their 

public health law capacity and 

expertise; and (7) develops and 

disseminates authoritative information 

on public health law and public health 

law best practices to practitioners and 

policy makers. 

Office of Chief of Public Health 

Practice (CAR). The Office of Chief of 

Public Health Practice (OCPHP) serves 

as the advocate, guardian, promoter, and 

conscience of public health practice 

throughout CDC and in the larger public 

health community; ensures coordination 

and synergy of CDC’s scientific and 

practice activities; and promotes and 

protects the public’s health through 

science-based, practice-relevant 

standards, policies, and legal tools. To 

carry out its mission, OCPHP: (1) 

Establishes robust partnerships among 

CDC programs, public health 

practitioners and key sectors, including 

elected officials, the legal community, 

and law enforcement and emergency 

response organizations; (2) establishes a 

functional area focused specifically on 

standards and improvement in practice 

among state and local public health 

systems; (3) advances the development 

and implementation of a national 

agency accreditation system; (4) relates 

relevant research and policy analysis to 

public health practice; (5) monitors and 

anticipates public health practice trends 

and issues; and (6) coordinates and 

addresses cross-cutting issues related to 

public health practice within CDC; and 

(7) develops, monitors and advances 

agency-wide goals for improving health 

equity, fostering strategic excellence and 

innovation across CDC, and 

organizational development and the 

transition process. 


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Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 154 / Friday, August 8, 2008 / Notices 46301 

Dated: July 31, 2008. 

William H. Gimson, 

Chief Operating Officer, Centers for Disease 

Control and Prevention. 

[FR Doc. E8–18177 Filed 8–7–08; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid 

Services 

[Document Identifier: CMS–R–138, CMS–

10147, CMS–10146, CMS–10064, and CMS–

10225] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Submission for OMB 

Review; Comment Request 

Agency: Centers for Medicare & 

Medicaid Services, HHS. 

In compliance with the requirement 

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

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid 

Services (CMS), Department of Health 

and Human Services, is publishing the 

following summary of proposed 

collections for public comment. 

Interested persons are invited to send 

comments regarding this burden 

estimate or any other aspect of this 

collection of information, including any 

of the following subjects: (1) The 

necessity and utility of the proposed 

information collection for the proper 

performance of the Agency’s function; 

(2) the accuracy of the estimated 

burden; (3) ways to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and (4) the use of 

automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology to 

minimize the information collection 

burden. 

1. Type of Information Collection 

Request: Extension of a currently 

approved collection; Title of 

Information Collection: Medicare 

Geographic Classification Review Board 

(MGCRB) Procedures and Criteria and 

Supporting Regulations in 42 CFR, 

Section 412.256 & 412.230; Use: Section 

1886(d)(10) of the Social Security Act 

established the MGCRB, an entity that 

has the authority to accept short-term 

hospital inpatient prospective payment 

system (IPPS) hospital applications 

requesting geographic reclassification 

for wage index or standardized payment 

amounts and to issue decisions on these 

requests. Since it is important to ensure 

the accuracy of the MGCRB decisions 

and remain apprised of potential 

payment impacts, the regulations note 

that CMS should also receive a copy of 

any hospital’s application to the 

MGCRB. The information submitted by 

the hospitals is used by CMS staff to 

determine the validity of the hospitals’

requests and the discretion used by the 

MGCRB in reviewing and making 

decisions regarding hospitals’ requests 

for geographic reclassification. Since 

CMS wrote the guidelines for the 

MGCRB, it is essential that CMS staff 

monitor this process. Form Number: 

CMS–R–138 (OMB# 0938–0573); 

Frequency: Yearly; Affected Public: 

Business or other for-profits and Notfor-profit institutions; Number of 

Respondents: 300; Total Annual 

Responses: 300; Total Annual Hours: 

300. 

2. Type of Information Collection 

Request: Extension of a currently 

approved collection; Title of 

Information Collection: Medicare 

Prescription Drug Coverage and Your 

Rights; Use: Section 42 CFR 423.562, 

requires each Part D plan sponsor to 

arrange with its network pharmacies to 

post or distribute the Medicare 

Prescription Drug Coverage and Your 

Rights notice to Part D plan enrollees at 

each pharmacy visit when the enrollee 

disagrees with the information provided 

by the pharmacist. The purpose of this 

notice is to provide enrollees with 

information about how to contact their 

Part D plans to request a coverage 

determination, including a request for 

an exception to the Part D plan’s 

formulary. Form Number: CMS 10147 

(OMB# 0938–0975); Frequency: Daily; 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofits; Number of Respondents: 40,000; 

Total Annual Responses: 30,000,000; 

Total Annual Hours: 500,000. 

3. Type of Information Collection 

Request: Extension of a currently 

approved collection; Title of 

Information Collection: Notice of Denial 

of Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage; 

Use: Section 1860D–4(g)(1) of the Social 

Security Act, requires Part D plan 

sponsors that deny prescription drug 

coverage to provide a written notice of 

the denial to the enrollee. The written 

notice must include a statement, in clear 

language, of the reasons for the denial 

and a description of the appeals process. 

Form Number: CMS 10146 (OMB# 

0938–0976); Frequency: Daily; Affected 

Public: Business or other for-profits; 

Number of Respondents: 758; Total 

Annual Responses: 290,344; Total 

Annual Hours: 145,172. 

4. Type of Information Collection 

Request: Extension of a currently 

approved collection; Title of 

Information Collection: Minimum Data 

Set (MDS) for Swing Bed Hospitals and 

Supporting Regulations in 42 CFR 

413.114(a)(2) and 413.343(a); Use: 

Exercising CMS’ authority under section 

1888(e)(7) of the Social Security Act to 

determine the most appropriate manner 

in which to implement the Skilled 

Nursing Facility Prospective Payment 

System (SNF PPS) for swing bed 

hospitals, CMS designed a 2-page MDS 

instrument for use by swing bed 

hospitals that includes all resident 

assessment data needed to reimburse 

swing bed hospitals for SNF-level care 

furnished to Medicare beneficiaries and 

to provide CMS with the basic 

demographic and utilization data for 

future planning and analysis. Form 

Number: CMS–10064 (OMB# 0938–

0872); Frequency: Occasionally; 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofits, Not-for-profit institutions and 

State, Local, or Tribal Governments; 

Number of Respondents: 481; Total 

Annual Responses: 50,505; Total 

Annual Hours: 328,283. 

5. Type of Information Collection 

Request: Revision of a currently 

approved collection; Title of 

Information Collection: Disclosures to 

Patients by Certain Hospitals and 

Critical Access Hospitals and 

Supporting Regulations in 42 CFR 

489.20; Form Number: CMS–10225 

(OMB#: 0938–1035); Use: This 

information request relates to proposed 

required third party disclosures by 

certain Medicare-participating hospitals 

and critical access hospitals (CAHs) to 

their patients. The policy is contained 

in the FY 2009 Inpatient Prospective 

Payment System Final Rule. Because 

this information request is closely 

related to the previously approved 

collection burden under 0938–01034, 

we have included a discussion of both 

the approved provisions and the new 

provisions in the supporting statement 

document. 

In addition to the two existing 

collections previously approved under 

0938–1034, we are revising § 489.3 to 

define a physician-owned hospital as a 

hospital in which a physician, or an 

immediate family member of a 

physician has an ownership or 

investment interest in the hospital. 

Because of this change to the definition 

of a physician-owned hospital, new 

§ 489.20(u)(1) will require that hospitals 

with ownership or investment interests 

by a physician or immediate family 

member disclose this information to all 

their patients. Additionally, we revised 

§ 489.20(u) by creating § 489.20(u)(1) 

that requires any physician-owned 

hospital to furnish patients with written 

notice that the hospital is physicianowned and provide the list of physician 

owners (including immediate family 

members) to the patient at the time the 

patient or someone on the patient’s 

behalf requests it. 


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