[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 154 (Tuesday, August 11, 1998)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 42796]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-21422]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Care Financing Administration

42 CFR Chapter IV

[HCFA-3250-N]
RIN 0938-0938-AI92


Medicare Program; Negotiated Rulemaking; Coverage and 
Administrative Policies for Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory Tests; 
Change in Meeting Time

AGENCY: Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), HHS.

ACTION: Notice of meetings.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces the revised times for certain meetings 
of the negotiated Rulemaking Committee on Coverage and Administrative 
Policies for Clinical Laboratory Tests.

DATES: The meetings are scheduled as follows:

1. August 27, 1998, 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
2. September 16, 1998, 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
3. October 8, 1998, 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
4. October 28, 1998, 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
5. November 20, 1998, 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
6. December 10, 1998, 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jackie Sheridan (410) 786-4635.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The meetings for the Negotiated Rulemaking 
Committee on National Coverage and Administrative Policies for Clinical 
Laboratory Tests were originally scheduled to begin at 9:00 and to end 
at 5:00 p.m. on each day the Committee was scheduled to meet (63 FR 
30166). The Committee will now plan to meet from 8:00 a.m. until 3:00 
p.m. on the third day of each 3-day series of meetings, beginning on 
August 27. Therefore, the meetings on August 27, September 16, October 
28, November 20, and December 10, 1998 will begin at 8:00 a.m. and end 
at approximately 3:00 p.m. On October 8, 1998, the meeting will begin 
at 8:00 a.m. and adjourn at 12:00 noon. Public comments will be heard 
in the morning on each of these dates.
    The Negotiated Rulemaking Committee on national Coverage Policies 
for Clinical laboratory Tests was established under mandate of section 
4554(b) of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 to provide advice and make 
recommendations to the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human 
Services on the text or content of a proposed rule that will establish 
national coverage and administrative policies for clinical laboratory 
tests.
    The meetings are open to the public without advance registration. 
Public attendance at the meetings may be limited to space available.

    Authority: Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App. 2)

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Program No. 93.774, 
Medicare--Supplementary Medical insurance Program)

    Dated: August 5, 1998.
Nancy-Ann Min DeParle,
Administrator, Health Care Financing Administration.
[FR Doc. 98-21422 Filed 8-10-98; 8:45 am]
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