[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 186 (Monday, September 26, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 59399]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-24621]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Office of the Secretary


Statement of Organization, Functions and Delegations of Authority

    Part A (Office of the Secretary), Statement of Organization, 
Functions, and Delegations of Authority of the Department of Health and 
Human Services (HHS) is being amended at Chapter AE, Office of the 
Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), as last amended 
at 66 FR 61341-42 dated September 30, 2002 and most recently at 73 FR 
19977, dated April 16, 2010 and at 76 FR 19361-62, dated April 7, 2011. 
This notice establishes a fourth division under the Office of Health 
Policy (HP) and restate's HP's functional statement in its entirety. 
The changes are as follows:
    I. Under Section AE.20 Functions, deleted Paragraph B, Office of 
Health Policy (AEH), in its entirety and replace with the following:
    B. The Office of Health Policy (AEH)
    The Office of Health Policy (HP) is responsible for policy 
development and coordination and for the conduct and coordination of 
research, evaluation, and data, on matters relating to health systems, 
services, and financing. Functions include policy and long-range 
planning; policy, economic, program and budget analysis; evaluation; 
review of regulations and development of legislation. Health policy 
matters includes public health, health services and systems, public and 
private health insurance, health care financing, health care quality, 
consumer health information, and the interaction among these matters 
and sectors. HP is responsible for developing and coordinating a health 
policy research, information, and analytical program to gain 
information concerning health services, public health, delivery systems 
and financing. The Office works closely with other ASPE and HHS offices 
on these matters, coordinates and shares information across Federal 
agencies, and collaborates with the health policy and health services 
research community. HP works closely with the Department's Centers for 
Medicare & Medicaid Services, the Agency for Healthcare Research and 
Quality, the Health Resources and Services Administration, the Indian 
Health Service, The Office of the Assistant Secretary of Health, the 
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, and other 
HHS agencies.
    1. The Division of Health Care Financing Policy (AEH1) is 
responsible for policies and functions of the office concerning health 
care financing and health care costs, principally Federal health care 
financing related to the Department's Medicare program, including 
matters concerning structural changes and modernization for the long-
term, such as drug benefits, coverage and eligibility, new technology, 
new delivery systems, and payments for services. This includes 
development of studies, policies, and mechanisms concerning the 
financing and delivery of health care for the Medicare population as 
well as evaluations of programs and delivery system innovations. The 
division monitors, analyzes, and maintains liaison with programs and 
policies in the Department and outside the Department that effect 
functions of the Division.
    2. The Division of Public Health Services Policy (AEH2) is 
responsible for the functions of the office related to public health 
services and policies. The division conducts and develops analyses, 
studies, evaluations, and guidelines on matters such as: monitoring and 
addressing public health services resources and needs; assessing the 
design and effectiveness of health promotion/disease prevention 
endeavors; monitoring and addressing health disparities; projecting 
workforce needs; developing options for addressing workforce needs and 
shortages; developing options for improving the interaction between the 
medical services delivery system and population-based public health 
services; and addressing numerous other issues affecting both public 
and private healthcare services endeavors. The division monitors, 
analyzes, and maintains liaison with programs and policies both inside 
and outside the Department that effect functions of the Division's 
mission.
    3. The Division of Health Care Access and Coverage Policy (AEH3) 
focuses on oversight of the private health insurance marketplace and 
the financing and delivery of health care services for low-income 
populations. The division is responsible for the functions of the 
office with respect to private health insurance, the Medicaid program, 
the Children's Health Insurance Program, coverage for the uninsured, 
and other policies and programs to help low income individuals and 
families have access to health care services. This includes development 
of studies, policies, and mechanisms that integrate the financing and 
delivery of health care services for this population. This division 
will collaborate with the Division of Health Care Financing Policy on 
issues effecting populations who are dually eligible for Medicare and 
Medicaid and other crosscutting areas. The division monitors, analyzes, 
and maintains liaison with programs and policies in the Department and 
outside the Department that effect functions of the Division.
    4. The Division of Health Care Quality and Outcomes Policy (AEH4) 
is responsible for functions related to quality measurement and 
improvement, performance reporting and performance incentives, and 
patient-centered outcomes research. This includes development of 
studies, policies, and mechanisms to support data infrastructure 
development to support outcomes research as well as developing and 
disseminating evidence relating to patient outcomes research. The 
division monitors, analyzes, and maintains liaison with programs and 
policies in the Department and outside the Department that effect 
functions of the Division.
    II. Delegations of Authority: All delegations and redelegations of 
authority made to officials and employees of affected organizational 
components will continue in them or their successors pending further 
redelegation, provided they are consistent with this reorganization.

    Dated: September 19, 2011.
E.J. Holland, Jr.,
Assistant Secretary for Administration.
[FR Doc. 2011-24621 Filed 9-23-11; 8:45 am]
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