Medicare program; schedule of limits on home health agency costs per visit for cost reporting periods beginning on or after July 1, 1997--HCFA. Notice with comment period

This notice sets fort a revised schedule of limits on home health agency costs that may be paid under the Medicare program for cost reporting periods beginning on or after July 1, 1997. These limits replace the per visit limits that were set forth in our July 1, 1996 notice with comment period (61 FR 34344). This notice also responds to comments on the July 1, 1996 notice.     

Medicare and Medicaid programs; Medicare-Medicaid coverage data bank requirements: preliminary guidance--HCFA. Notice

This notice informs the public about section 1144 of the Social Security Act, which is self-implementing, and provides preliminary guidance to employers who are required to report information about all individuals covered by group health plans to a newly established Medicare-Medicaid Coverage Data Bank. Information in the data bank will be used to help identify situations where employer group health plans are responsible for making primary payments for services received by Medicare or Medicaid beneficiaries. This notice provides: information on the background and legislative authority for the data bank; definitions of key terms; reporting requirements; the identity of entities that are required to, or may, report; reporting dates; penalties for noncompliance; and methods of reporting.     

User control of personal information concerning mobile-app: Notice and consent?

This paper discusses the practical value of the traditional privacy protection measure “notice and consent” in the mobile context. It analyses the weakness of this approach in the mobile context through a user survey and subsequent analysis. This paper will demonstrate, in the context of mobile commerce, the simple ‘notice and consent’ measure may not be a very useful measure to enhance control; moreover, shifting the burden of privacy protection to data subjects' self-control may not be sufficient for meaningful privacy protection in the era of Big Data. Given this reality, some new solutions, such as providing meaningful alternatives, use of more effective privacy protection software, and better design of warnings and nudges are suggested.     

Medicare program: data, standards, and methodology used to establish fiscal year 1994 budgets for fiscal intermediaries and carriers--HCFA. Final notice

This notice is published in accordance with sections 1816(c)(1) and 1842(c)(1) of the Social Security Act which require us to publish the final data, standards, and methodology used to establish budgets for Medicare intermediaries and carriers. In this notice, we respond to the comments received in response to our notice of October 5, 1993 and we announce the adoption of the proposed data, standards, and methodology that we used to establish the Medicare fiscal intermediary and carrier budgets for fiscal year (FY) 1994, beginning October 1, 1993, as final and without revision.     

Medicare program; peer review organization contracts: solicitation of statements of interest from in-state organizations--Alaska, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, Nebraska, Nevada, South Carolina, Vermont, and Wyoming--HCFA. Notice

This notice, in accordance with section 1153(i) of the Social Security Act, gives at least 6 months' advance notice of the expiration dates of contracts with out-of-State Utilization and Quality Control Peer Review Organizations. It also specifies the period of time in which in-State organizations may submit a statement of interest so that they may be eligible to compete for these contracts.     

Medicare program; schedule of limits on home health agency costs per visit for cost reporting periods beginning on or after July 1, 1992; correction--HCFA. Notice with comment period; correction

In the July 1, 1992 issue of the Federal Register (FR Doc. 92-15496) (57 FR 29410), we published a notice with comment period that set forth a revised schedule of limits on home health agency costs that may be paid under the Medicare program. The July 1, 1992 notice applies to cost reporting periods beginning on or after July 1, 1992. This notice corrects errors made in the July 1, 1992 document.     

Medicare program: request for public comments on implementation of risk adjusted payment for the Medicare+Choice program and announcement of public meeting--HCFA. Solicitation of comments; announcement of meeting

This notice solicits further public comments on issues related to the implementation of risk adjusted payment of Medicare+Choice organizations. Section 1853(a)(3) of the Social Security Act (the Act) requires the Secretary to implement a risk adjustment methodology that accounts for variation in per capita costs based on health status and demographic factors for payments no later than January 1, 2000. The methodology is to apply uniformly to all Medicare+Choice plans. This notice outlines our proposed approach to implementing risk adjusted payment. In order to carry out risk adjustment, section 1853(a)(3) of the Act also requires Medicare+Choice organizations, as well as other organizations with risk sharing contracts, to submit encounter data. Inpatient hospital data are required for discharges on or after July 1, 1997. Other data, as the Secretary deems necessary, may be required beginning July 1998. The Medicare+Choice interim final rule published on June 26, 1998 (63 FR 34968) describes the general process for the collection of encounter data. We also included a schedule for the collection of additional encounter data. Physician, outpatient hospital, skilled nursing facility, and home health data will be collected no earlier than October 1, 1999, and all other data we deem necessary no earlier than October 1, 2000. Given any start date, comprehensive risk adjustment will be made about three years after the year of initial collection of outpatient hospital and physician encounter data. Comments on the process for encounter data collection are requested in that interim final rule. We intend to consider comments received in response to this solicitation as we develop the final methodology for implementation of risk adjustment. This notice also informs the public of a meeting on September 17, 1998, to discuss risk adjustment and the collection of encounter data. The meeting will be held at the Health Care Financing Administration headquarters, located at 7500 Security Boulevard, Baltimore, MD, beginning at 8:30 a.m. Additional materials on the risk adjustment model will be available on or after October 15, 1998, and may be requested in writing from Chapin Wilson, Health Care Financing Administration, Department of Health and Human Services, 200 Independence Avenue, S. W., Room 435-H, Washington, DC 20201.     

Medicare program; additions to and deletions from the current list of covered surgical procedures for ambulatory surgical centers--HCFA. Final notice with comment period

This final notice with comment period implements section 1833(i)(1) of the Social Security Act, which requires, in part, that the list of covered ambulatory surgical center (ASC) procedures be reviewed and updated at least every 2 years. This notice announces the specific additions to and deletions from the list of surgical procedures for which facility services are covered when the procedures are performed in a Medicare-participating ASC, as well as the assigned payment groups for each addition. The notice also announces a change in our criteria for deleting procedures from the ASC list. This notice also responds to public comments received in response to our proposed notice published December 14, 1993 (58 FR 65357). In that notice, we requested comments on the proposed additions to and deletions from the list of covered surgical procedures for ASCs; the proposed quantitative change in our deletion criteria; the development of alternatives to the proposed quantitative deletion criteria; and the assignment of payment groups for each addition. Finally, this notice solicits public comment on certain additions to and deletions from the ASC list that had not been suggested in our December 1993 proposed notice. It also solicits public comment on the assignment of payment groups for certain new procedure codes.     

Medicare program; schedule of limits on home health agency costs per visit--HCFA. Notice with comment period

This notice with comment period sets forth a revised schedule of limits on home health agency costs that may be paid under the Medicare program for cost reporting periods beginning on or after July 1, 1993. These limits replace the per-visit limits that were set forth in our July 8, 1993 notice with comment period (58 FR 36748). This notice also provides, in accordance with the provisions of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 (OBRA '93), that there will be no changes in the home health agency (HHA) cost limits for cost reporting periods beginning on or after July 1, 1994, and before July 1, 1996. In addition, this notice responds to public comments on the July 8, 1993 notice with comment period, which originally set forth the HHA cost limits for cost reporting periods beginning on or after July 1, 1993, and on the January 6, 1994 notice with comment period (59 FR 760), which announced the elimination of the hospital based add-on effective for cost reporting periods beginning on or after October 1, 1993.     

Chapter 3: Pleadings,Notice, Parties,and Appearances

This chapter focuses on UCCJA s? 9 pleading requirements. Judges need the information this section requires litigants to provide in order to determine jurisdiction. This chapter also covers who is entitled to notice and opportunity to be heard, how notice may be given, and what the court can do to facilitate appearances of out-of-state parties and children.     

Sample patient medical information use and disclosure notice

In accordance with the federal health privacy standards promulgated pursuant to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 ("HIPAA"), covered entities must provide adequate notice to individuals of their policies and procedures regarding protected health information. The form below may be used as a starting point by covered entities for the development of such notice.     

Medicare and Medicaid programs; mandatory use, collection, encoding, and transmission of Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS) for home health agencies. Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), HHS. Notice

This notice announces to home health agencies (HHAs), State survey agencies, Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, software vendors, and the general public changes to and effective dates for OASIS implementation. This notice announces the effective dates for the mandatory use, collection, encoding, and transmission of OASIS data for all Medicare/Medicaid patients receiving skilled services. For non-Medicare/non-Medicaid patients receiving skilled services, there will be no encoding and transmission until further notice, but HHAs must conduct comprehensive assessments and updates at the required time points. For patients receiving personal care only services, regardless of payor source, we are delaying the requirements regarding OASIS use, collection, encoding, and transmission until further notice. We expect to begin implementation of OASIS for non-Medicare/non-Medicaid patients receiving skilled care and for patients receiving personal care only services in the Spring of 2000. A separate Federal Register notice will be published with instructions at that time. In addition, software changes described at the end of this notice are of interest to software vendors and HHAs. Also, a companion notice concerning the OASIS System of Records (SOR) is published elsewhere in this Federal Register and is available via the HCFA Internet site (http://www.hcfa.gov).     

Medicare program; schedules of per-visit and per-beneficiary limitations on home health agency costs for cost reporting periods beginning on or after October 1, 1998--HCFA. Notice with comment period

This notice with comment period sets forth revised schedules of limitations on home health agency costs that may be paid under the Medicare program for cost reporting periods beginning on or after October 1, 1998. These limitations replace the limitations that were set forth in our January 2, 1998 notice with comment period (63 FR 89) and our March 31, 1998 final rule with comment period (63 FR 15718).     

Medicare program; update of ambulatory surgical center payment rates and additions to and deletions from the current list of covered surgical procedures--HCFA. Notice with comment period

This notice implements section 1833(i)(2)(A) of the Social Security Act, which requires that the payment rates for ambulatory surgical center (ASC) services be reviewed and updated annually, and responds to the public comment we received concerning the ambulatory surgical center payment rate update notice with comment period published on July 5, 1990 (55 FR 27690). It also implements section 1833(i)(1) of the Social Security Act, which requires, in part, that the list of covered ambulatory surgical center procedures be reviewed and updated at least every 2 years. This notice announces additions to and deletions from the list of surgical procedures for which facility services are covered when the procedures are performed in an ASC. This notice also announces the assignment of payment groups for each procedure and responds to public comments received in response to the notice proposing additions to and deletions from the list of covered surgical procedures that was published on December 7, 1990.     

海域使用权登记制度的完善

登记是海域使用权变动中的公示方法，其公示的是海域使用权的权属状况或者海域使用权的不复存在。“海域使用权公示”和“海域使用权享有”是两个完全不同的概念。只有基于法律行为导致的海域使用权变动，登记公示是海域使用权享有的要件。但海域使用权公示的效力还有登记对抗、未登记不得再处分两种。海域使用权登记制度中应该增加异议登记和预告登记两项制度。     

Medicare program; criteria for Medicare coverage of lung transplants--HCFA. Notice with comment period

This notice announces a Medicare national coverage decision for lung and heart-lung transplantations. Lung transplantation refers to the transplantation of one or both lungs from a single cadaver donor. Heart-lung transplantation refers to the transplantation of one or both lungs and the heart from a single cadaver donor. We have determined that, under certain circumstances, lung transplants and heart-lung transplants are a medically reasonable and necessary service when furnished to patients with progressive end-stage pulmonary or cardiopulmonary disease and when furnished by Medicare participating facilities that meet specific criteria, including patient selection criteria. DATES: This notice is effective February 2, 1995. For information on how this notice effects Medicare payment for lung and heart-lung transplants, see sections E and F of this notice.     

Medicaid program; rescission of the guidelines for documenting Medicaid recipient access to immunizations under the Vaccines for Children (VFC) Program--HCFA. Notice

This notice rescinds the guidelines that we published in the Federal Register on October 3, 1994, that required States to document equal access to immunizations for Medicaid children if States elected to use lower vaccine administration fees than the maximum charges that were published and applicable under the Vaccines for Children program. These guidelines are rescinded in response to public comments on the October 3, 1994 notice. States indicated that there were numerous problems regarding the collection of useable data.     

“通知删除”规则的再检讨

"通知删除"规则通过激励网络服务提供者接收来自权利人的侵权通知,采取相应必要措施,配合权利人维权,制止网络侵权行为的蔓延。我国《侵权责任法》第36条已然将《信息网络传播权保护条例》所规定的"通知删除"规则修正为"通知与必要措施"规则。实践中,包括接入、传输服务提供者等在内的网络服务提供者应当适用"通知删除"规则,并根据案件的具体情况,参考比例原则采取必要措施,且其采取的措施并不限于"定位清除",还包括建立顺畅的"通知—受理—转通知"渠道以及提供侵权行为人相关信息、终止网络服务等与其所提供服务的特点相匹配的措施。     

心理测试中的注意心理机制

心理测试(俗称测谎)的主要任务就是发现被测人记忆中是否存在有关测试主题的心理信息,而心理信息的形成主要取决于注意,所以说注意是心理信息形成的重要源泉,也是心理测试的一个重要心理学基础,因此对注意心理机制的分析将有助于测试题目的编制和结果的分析,从而提高测试的有效性和准确性。