[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 66 (Thursday, April 6, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 17549]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-8385]



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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration; Section 1892 of the 
Social Security Act, as amended; Offset of Medicare Payments to 
Individuals to Collect Past-Due Obligations Arising From Breach of 
Scholarship or Loan Contract; Delegation of Authority

    Notice is hereby given that in furtherance of the delegation of 
authority to the Assistant Secretary for Health on January 31, 1995, 
the Assistant Secretary for Health has delegated to the Administrator, 
Health Resources and Services Administration, with authority to 
redelegate, certain authorities 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 provided for the ratification of all actions taken by any Public 
Health Service officials, with respect to Medicare offsets, prior to 
the effective date of this delegation.
    The above delegation was effective on March 28, 1995.

    Dated: March 28, 1995.
Philip R. Lee,
Assistant Secretary for Health.
[FR Doc. 95-8385 Filed 4-5-95; 8:45 am]
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