Notice2023-00903
Virtual Meeting of the Ground Ambulance and Patient Billing Advisory Committee; Cancellation
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Published
January 18, 2023
Issuing agencies
Health and Human Services DepartmentCenters for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Abstract
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.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 11 (Wednesday, January 18, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Page 2931]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[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 <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#503731203231342639233f2229333f3d3d392424353510333d237e3838237e373f26"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="03646273616267756a706c717a606c6e6e6a7777666643606e702d6b6b702d646c75">[email protected]</span></a>.
Press inquiries may be submitted by phone (202) 690-6145 or via
email at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#a8d8dacddbdbe8cbc5db86c0c0db86cfc7de"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="aededccbddddeecdc3dd80c6c6dd80c9c1d8">[email protected]</span></a>.
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
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