Federal Register Notice
6/01/98
(63 FR 29738)

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics; Meetings

Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, the Department of Health and Human Services announces the following advisory committee meetings.

Name: National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS), Subcommittee on Health Data Needs, Standards, and Security.

Times and Dates: 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., June 15, 1997.

Place: Room 505A, Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 200 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20201.

Status: Open.

Purpose Under the Administrative Simplification provisions of Pub. L. 104-191, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), the Secretary of Health and Human Services is required to adopt standards for specified transactions to enable health information to be exchanged electronically. The law requires that, within 24 months of adoption, all health plans, health care clearinghouses, and health care providers who choose to conduct these transactions electronically must comply with these standards. The law also requires the Secretary to adopt a number of supporting standards including standards for code sets and classifications systems. The Secretary is required to rely upon the recommendations of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS) in complying with these provisions. The NCVHS is the Department's federal advisory committee on health data, privacy and health information policy.

On June 15, 1998, the NCVHS Subcommittee on Health Data Needs, Standards, and Security will hold a meeting to review the progress of its work and plan future activities. The Subcommittee will discuss plans for addressing 1) the HIPAA requirements relating to electronic data interchange standards for claims attachments and 2) NCVHS recommendations for standards for clinical data and its electronic interchange. The Subcommittee also will consider possible comments on the published Notices of Proposed Rulemaking relating to the adoption of EDI standards for health care administrative transactions. In addition, the Subcommittee will discuss approaches to the development of a framework for procedure classification systems, as well as plans for public hearings on unique individual identifiers for use in the health system. All topics and times are tentative and subject to change. Please check the NCVHS website, where a detailed agenda will be posted prior to the meeting.

Contact Person for More Information: Substantive program information as well as summaries of NCVHS meetings and a roster of committee members may be obtained by visiting the NCVHS website (http://aspe.os.dhhs/gov/ncvhs). You may also call James Scanlon, NCVHS Executive Staff Director, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, DHHS, Room 440-D. Humphrey Building, 200 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20201, telephone (202) 690- 7100, or Marjorie S. Greenberg, Executive Secretary, NCVHS, NCHS, CDC, Room 1100, Presidential Building, 6525 Belcrest Road, Hyattsville, Maryland 20782, telephone (301) 436-7050.

Note: In the interest of security, the Department has instituted stringent procedures for entrance into the Hubert H. Humphrey Building by non-government employees. Thus, individuals without government identification cards may need to have the guard call for an escort to the meeting room.

Dated: May 26, 1998.

James Scanlon, Director, Division of Data Policy, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.

[FR Doc. 98-14291 Filed 5-29-98; 8:56 am]

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