[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 110 (Thursday, June 7, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33749-33750]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-13831]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration


Notice of a Noncompetitive Supplement and a 7-Month Extension of 
the Period of Support for the Frontier Extended Stay Clinic (FESC) 
Cooperative Agreement Recipient--SouthEast Alaska Regional Health 
Consortium

AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Department 
of Health and Human Services.

ACTION: Notice of a Noncompetitive Supplement and a 7-Month Extension 
of the Period of Support for the Frontier Extended Stay Clinic (FESC) 
Cooperative Agreement Recipient--SouthEast Alaska Regional Health 
Consortium.

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SUMMARY: The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) will 
be issuing a non-competitive supplement and a 7-month extension of the 
period of support to the Frontier Extended Stay Clinic (FESC) 
Cooperative Agreement recipient of record, SouthEast Alaska Regional 
Health Consortium (Grant Number U17RH23237). The FESC Cooperative 
Agreement helps to examine the effectiveness and appropriateness of a 
new type of provider, FESC, in providing health care services in remote 
areas. The 7-month extension with funds will align with the related 
three-year Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) 
demonstration, which will run until March 2013.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The recipient of record and intended award 
amount is:

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               Grant No.                       Grantee name               Grantee city               Grantee state           CFDA No.      supplemental
                                                                                                                                           award amount
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U17RH23237............................  SouthEast Alaska Regional  Sitka.....................  AK                                 93.912     $700,000.00
                                         Health Consortium.
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    Intended Recipient of the Award: SouthEast Alaska Regional Health 
Consortium.
    Amount of the Award: $700,000.00.

    CFDA Number: 93.912.

    Project Period: September 1, 2011 through March 31, 2013.

    Authority: Section 330A of the Public Health Service Act, as 
amended, (42 U.S.C. 254c).

Justification

    The Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act of 
2003 (MMA) authorized CMS to conduct a demonstration program in which 
FESCs would be treated as Medicare providers. The CMS demonstration 
took several years to develop and officially began on April 1, 2010, 
when the first clinic site submitted the first claim to CMS. This 3-
year demonstration will run until March 2013.
    In 2004, Congress appropriated funds to HRSA to undertake a 
demonstration project that supports the development of a FESC CMS 
Medicare provider type. By supplementing the award to the current 
recipient, there will be continued support to keep the FESC sites 
participating through (or close to) the end of the CMS demonstration. 
The CMS demonstration provides payments only for FESC services provided 
to Medicare beneficiaries. On average, only 20 percent of FESC services 
are Medicare-eligible, meaning that the clinics do not receive payment 
for as much as 80 percent of their FESC services. HRSA funds provide 
support for those services that are not reimbursed by Medicare.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Aaron Fischbach, Health Resources and 
Services Administration, Office of Rural Health Policy, 5600 Fishers 
Lane, Room 5A-05, Rockville, Maryland 20852, or email 
[email protected].

    Dated: May 30, 2012.
Mary K. Wakefield,
Administrator, Health Resources and Services Administration.
[FR Doc. 2012-13831 Filed 6-6-12; 8:45 am]
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