[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 17 (Tuesday, January 27, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 3902]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-1843]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES


National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics: Meeting

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

    Name: National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS), 
Subcommittee on Population-Specific Issues.
    Times and Dates: 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., February 9, 1998; 9:00 
a.m.-4:00 p.m., February 10, 1998.
    Place: Wyndam Metro Center Hotel, 10220 North Metro Parkway 
East, Phoenix, Arizona.
    Status: Open.
    Purpose: The Subcommittee is in the process of examining a 
number of data needs and issues associated with Medicaid managed 
care. The purpose of this site visit to Arizona is to obtain 
information on one State's Medicaid managed care program, with 
special attention to data needs, data systems, data uses and data 
issues. Presentations are planned involving representatives of State 
agencies, providers, plans, and patient advocacy groups who will 
describe their data needs and issues relating to Medicaid managed 
care. A subsequent site visit to Massachusetts also is planned.
    Contact Person for more Information: Substantive program 
information as well as a roster of committee members may be obtained 
from Carolyn Rimes, lead Subcommittee staff, Health Care Financing 
Administration, DHHS, 7500 Security Boulevard, C-3-21-06, Baltimore, 
Maryland 21244-1850, telephone (410) 786-6620, or Marjorie S. 
Greenberg, Executive Secretary, NCVHS, NCHS, CDC, Room 1100, 
Presidential Building, 6525 Belcrest Road, Hyattsville, Maryland 
20782, telephone 301/436-7050. Additional information about the full 
Committee is available on the NCVHS website, where the tentative 
agenda for the Subcommittee meeting will also be posted when 
available: http://aspe.os.dhhs.gov/ncvhs

    Dated: January 20, 1998.
James Scanlon,
Director, Division of Data Policy.
[FR Doc. 98-1843 Filed 1-26-98; 8:45 am]
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