[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 30 (Tuesday, February 14, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8409-8410]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-3560]



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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Public Health Service


Delegation of Authority

    Notice is hereby given that I have delegated to the Assistant 
Secretary for Health, with authority to redelegate, certain authorities 
vested in the Secretary of Health and Human Services 
[[Page 8410]] under Section 1892 of the Social Security Act, as amended 
hereafter, pertaining to Offset of Medicare Payments to Individuals to 
Collect Past-Due Obligations Arising from Breach of Scholarship or Loan 
Contract.
    The authorities hereby delegated are (1) the authority to 
negotiate, approve, and sign Medicare Offset Agreements, and (2) the 
authority to inform the Attorney General and the Inspector General of 
the Department of Health and Human Services when a scholarship or loan 
obligor has refused to enter into, or has breached, a Medicare Offset 
Agreement. All other authorities under Section 1892 have been delegated 
to, and remain with, the Administrator, Health Care Financing 
Administration.
    I hereby ratify all actions, with respect to Medicare offsets, 
taken by the Assistant Secretary for Health or by any Public Health 
Service Official prior to the effective date of this delegation that, 
in effect, involved the exercise of either authority delegated herein.
    This delegation became effective upon the date of signature.

    Dated: January 31, 1995.
Donna E. Shalala,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-3560 Filed 2-13-95; 8:45 am]
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