[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 164 (Tuesday, August 25, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 45248]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-22719]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Health Care Policy and Research
Contract Review Meeting
In accordance with Section 10(a) of the Federal Advisory Committee
Act (5 U.S.C. Appendix 2), announcement is made of the following
technical review committee to meet during the month of August 1998.
Name: Technical Review Committee of the Agency for Health Care
Policy and Research Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household and
Medical Provider Components.
Date and Time: August 25, 1998, 8:00 a.m.--5:00 p.m.
Place: Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, Executive
Office Center, 6th Floor Conference Room, 2101 East Jefferson
Street, Rockville, Maryland 20852.
This meeting will be closed to the public.
Purpose: The Technical Review Committee's charge is to provide,
on behalf of the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR)
Contracts Review Committee, recommendations to the Administrator,
AHCPR, regarding the technical merit of contract proposals submitted
in response to a specific Request for Proposals regarding the AHCPR
Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household and Medical
Provider Components, announced in the Commerce Business Daily on
April 6, 1998.
This contract will continue the Agency for Health Care Policy
and Research's operations is support of the Medical Expenditure
Panel Survey Household and Medical Provider Components. This effort
consists of simultaneous data collection and data preparation
activities.
The purpose of MEPS is to provide policymakers, health care
administrators, businesses, researchers and others with timely,
comprehensive information about health care use and costs in the
United States. MEPS is unparalleled for the degree of detail in its
data as well as its ability to link health expenditure and health
insurance information to the demographic, employment and health
status characteristics of survey respondents. Moreover, MEPS is the
only national survey that provides a foundation for estimating the
impact of changes in source of payment and insurance coverage on
different economic groups or special populations such as the poor,
elderly, families, veterans, the uninsured, and racial and ethnic
minorities. The MEPS consists of several components: the Household
Component (HC), Medical Provider Component (MPC), Insurance
Component (IC) and the Nursing Home Component (NHC).
The objective of the MEPS Household Component and the Medical
Provider Component is to produce mean and distributional estimates,
at both national and regional levels, representing calendar year and
cross-sectional time points for a variety of health related
measures. These data are particularly important because they can be
generalized to the entire civilian noninstitutionalized population,
and because the survey design permits the conduct of research where
families as well as individuals are the units of analysis.
Because of its uniqueness and importance, AHCPR is committed to
the timely dissemination of all MEPS data products and micro data
files. The timely dissemination, release and dissemination of such
products and files is of the utmost importance to the overall
success of the MEPS project.
Agenda: The Committee meeting will be devoted entirely to the
technical review and evaluation of contract proposals submitted in
response to the above-referenced Request for Proposals. The
Administrator, AHCPR, has made a formal determination that this
meeting will not be open to the public. This action is necessary to
safeguard confidential proprietary information and personal
information concerning individuals associated with the proposals
that may be revealed during this meeting, and to protect the free
exchange of views, and avoid undue interference with Committee and
Department operations.
This is accordance with section 10(d) of the Federal Advisory
Committee Act, 5 U.S.C., Appendix 2, implementing regulations, 41
CFR 101-6.1023 and procurement regulations, 48 CFR section
315.604(d).
Anyone wishing to obtain information regarding this meeting
should contact Doris Lefkowitz, Center for Cost and Financing
Studies, Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, 2101 East
Jefferson Street, Suite 500, Rockville, Maryland 20852, telephone
(301) 594-1406.
Dated: August 18, 1998.
John M. Eisenberg,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 98-22719 Filed 8-24-98; 8:45 am]
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