[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 11 (Wednesday, January 18, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Page 2931]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-00903]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

[CMS-9896-N2]


Virtual Meeting of the Ground Ambulance and Patient Billing 
Advisory Committee; Cancellation

AGENCY: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Health and 
Human Services (HHS).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is cancelling the 
virtual public meeting of the Ground Ambulance and Patient Billing, 
which was scheduled for January 17 and 18, 2023.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Shaheen Halim, CMS, by phone (410) 
786-0641 or via email at [email protected].
    Press inquiries may be submitted by phone (202) 690-6145 or via 
email at [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice announces the cancellation of 
the January 17 and 18, 2023 virtual public meeting of the Ground 
Ambulance and Patient Billing (GAPB) that was announced in the December 
16, 2022 Federal Register (87 FR 77122 through 77123). The January 17 
and 18, 2023 public meeting would have been the initial plenary meeting 
of the GAPB Advisory Committee. CMS will publish a notice in the 
Federal Register announcing the future, rescheduled dates on which the 
initial meeting of the GAPB Advisory Committee will take place no less 
than 15 calendar days before the meeting date. The meeting will be open 
to the public in accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act.
    The GAPB Advisory Committee will make recommendations with respect 
to disclosure of charges and fees for ground ambulance services and 
insurance coverage, consumer protection and enforcement authorities of 
the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and the Treasury 
(the Departments) and relevant States, and the prevention of balance 
billing to consumers. The recommendations shall address options, best 
practices, and identified standards to prevent instances of balance 
billing; steps that can be taken by State legislatures, State insurance 
regulators, State attorneys general, and other State officials as 
appropriate, consistent with current legal authorities regarding 
consumer protection; and legislative options for Congress to prevent 
balance billing.
    The Administrator of CMS, Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, having reviewed 
and approved this document, authorizes Lynette Wilson, who is the 
Federal Register Liaison, to electronically sign this document for 
purposes of publication in the Federal Register.

    Dated: January 12, 2023.
Lynette Wilson,
Federal Register Liaison, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
[FR Doc. 2023-00903 Filed 1-13-23; 4:15 pm]
BILLING CODE 4120-01-P