80_FR_54462 80 FR 54288 - Announcement of the Intent To Award a Single-Source Cooperative Agreement to the Gerontology Institute, University of Massachusetts Boston

80 FR 54288 - Announcement of the Intent To Award a Single-Source Cooperative Agreement to the Gerontology Institute, University of Massachusetts Boston

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Community Living

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 174 (September 9, 2015)

Page Range54288-54289
FR Document2015-22630

The Administration for Community Living (ACL) announces the intent to award a single-source cooperative agreement in the amount of $75,000 to the Gerontology Institute, University of Massachusetts Boston (UMass Boston) to support and stimulate the expansion of work already underway by UMass Boston in providing pension counseling services to residents of the State of Illinois.

Federal Register, Volume 80 Issue 174 (Wednesday, September 9, 2015) 
[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 174 (Wednesday, September 9, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 54288-54289]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2015-22630]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Community Living


Announcement of the Intent To Award a Single-Source Cooperative 
Agreement to the Gerontology Institute, University of Massachusetts 
Boston

AGENCY: Administration for Community Living, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Administration for Community Living (ACL) announces the 
intent to award a single-source cooperative agreement in the amount of 
$75,000 to the Gerontology Institute, University of Massachusetts 
Boston (UMass Boston) to support and stimulate the expansion of work 
already underway by UMass Boston in providing pension counseling 
services to residents of the State of Illinois.

DATES: The award will be issued for a project period to run 
concurrently with the existing grantee's budget period of July 1, 2015 
through June 30, 2016.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Valerie Soroka, Office of Elder 
Justice and Adult Protective Services, Administration on Aging, 
Administration for Community Living, 1 Massachusetts Avenue NW., 
Washington, DC 20001. Telephone: 202-357-3531; Email: 
valerie.soroka@acl.hhs.gov

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The ACL's Pension Counseling & Information 
Program consists of six regional pension counseling projects, covering 
29 states. The state of Illinois, with 6.4 million workers and a 
pension participation rate of 42%, is one of the largest states without 
an ACL-funded pension counseling project. The Pension Action Center at 
UMass Boston, which conducts ACL's New England Pension Assistance 
Project, is currently providing pension counseling services

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to residents of Illinois with funding from the Retirement Research 
Foundation. Additional funds are needed to leverage the foundation's 
funding, in order to ensure that the current provision of services to 
Illinois residents will be continued. This supplementary funding would 
be provided for the approved period.

    Authority: This program is authorized under Title II of the 
Older Americans Act (OAA) (42 U.S.C. 3032), as amended by the Older 
Americans Act Amendments of 2006, Public Law 109-365.

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 93.048).

    Dated: August 14, 2015.
Kathy Greenlee,
Assistant Secretary for Aging and Administrator, Administration for 
Community Living.
[FR Doc. 2015-22630 Filed 9-8-15; 8:45 am]
 BILLING CODE 4154-01-P

54288 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 174 / Wednesday, September 9, 2015 / Notices and service delivery models to reduce providing the data aggregation services Authority: The CMS award is authorized program expenditures under Medicare, described are the three entities under section 1115A of the Social Security Medicaid, and the Children’s Health identified for the single-source awards. Act, as added by Section 3021 of the Patient Insurance Program (CHIP) while Project Period: The anticipated period Protection and Affordable Care Act (P.L. 111– 148) which permits the obligation of funding preserving or enhancing the quality of of performance for each cooperative for CMS to design, implement, and evaluate care furnished to individuals under agreement is 12 months from date of innovative payment and service delivery such programs. In October 2012, CMS award with one continuation period of models. launched the Comprehensive Primary up to 12 months. Dated: September 1, 2015. Care (CPC) initiative as a multi-payer Provisions of the Notice: Title: Testing demonstration to test a model that a Model of Data Aggregation under the Daniel F. Kane, fosters collaboration between public and Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) Director, Office of Acquisition and Grants private health insurance companies Initiative. Management, Centers for Medicare & (‘‘payers’’) to strengthen primary care. Medicaid Services. CFDA Number: 93.646. The program includes 479 participating Estimated Award Date: September 12, [FR Doc. 2015–22687 Filed 9–8–15; 8:45 am] primary care practices and 38 2015. BILLING CODE 4120–01–P participating payers across 7 regional CMS has solicited proposal from Rise areas within the United States. The CMS Health, The Health Collaborative, and Innovation Center executed a My Health to include Medicare data into DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) the multi-payer data model of the CPC HUMAN SERVICES with each participating payer within the initiative. Administration for Community Living 7 regional areas covered by the program. CMS requested the following to be One of the stated goals in the MOU is submitted with each application: Announcement of the Intent To Award improving the flow of cost and 1. Cover Letter a Single-Source Cooperative utilization data to CPC primary care 2. Project Abstract Summary Agreement to the Gerontology practices. The test model will aggregate 3. Project Narrative to address how the Institute, University of Massachusetts multi-payer data for each primary care applicant will implement the Boston practice rather than practices receiving cooperative agreement program in the data individually from each payer. support of the goals of the AGENCY: Administration for Community This single-source cooperative Comprehensive Primary Care Living, HHS. agreement award will allow the Initiative. ACTION: Notice. inclusion of Medicare data into the CPC 4. Budget Narrative multi-payer data model. The awardees SUMMARY: The Administration for 5. SF–424: Official Application for will combine Medicare Fee-for-Service Community Living (ACL) announces the Federal Assistance (FFS) data with utilization data from 6. SF–424A: Budget Information Non- intent to award a single-source participating payers resulting in the Construction cooperative agreement in the amount of creation of uniform and actionable 7. SF–424B: Assurances-Non- $75,000 to the Gerontology Institute, reports to support physicians care Construction Programs University of Massachusetts Boston coordination and quality improvement 8. SF–LLL: Disclosure of Lobbying (UMass Boston) to support and efforts. Activities stimulate the expansion of work already Amount of the Award: There will be 9. Project Site Location Form(s) [as underway by UMass Boston in three (3) single-source, cooperative applicable] providing pension counseling services agreements awarded in the initial to residents of the State of Illinois. amount of $200,000–$450,000 per Applications will be reviewed using DATES: The award will be issued for a award for the first budget period. An the following evaluation criteria: project period to run concurrently with award for a non-competing continuation 1. Proposed Approach—describe the the existing grantee’s budget period of at $200,000–$450,000 may be awarded development and implementation July 1, 2015 through June 30, 2016. for a period of 12 months. strategy for collecting and aggregating FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Justification for Single Source Award: Medicare data with payer data from across the specified regions, including Valerie Soroka, Office of Elder Justice Commercial payers within the 7 regions an anticipated timeline and activities and Adult Protective Services, have agreed to work together to improve data-sharing to the CPC practices. Each associated with building the Administration on Aging, of the awardees currently maintain infrastructure needed to implement the Administration for Community Living, 1 contracts with all of the CPC payers for project. Massachusetts Avenue NW., data-sharing and have worked with the 2. Organizational Capacity and Washington, DC 20001. Telephone: payers and practices to develop Management Plan—demonstrates 202–357–3531; Email: valerie.soroka@ business requirements for the CPC sufficient infrastructure and capacity to acl.hhs.gov multi-payer claims database system. If plan and implement the cooperative SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The ACL’s CMS were to award another source, the agreement activities and associated Pension Counseling & Information vendor would not be aggregating funding. Program consists of six regional pension Medicare claims data with claims data 3. Evaluation and Reporting— counseling projects, covering 29 states. from the regional payers, as each of the overview of plans for quarterly reporting The state of Illinois, with 6.4 million payers have selected the three entities of to CMS on the progress of the data workers and a pension participation rate Lhorne on DSK5TPTVN1PROD with NOTICES this award to perform this function. aggregation activities funded under this of 42%, is one of the largest states Doing so would undermine the CPC cooperative agreement. without an ACL-funded pension practices’ ability to improve care and 4. Budget and Budget Narrative— counseling project. The Pension Action lower costs through care coordination provide a detailed cost breakdown with Center at UMass Boston, which and quality improvement and is counter explanations and justifications for the conducts ACL’s New England Pension to CMS’s MOU with the payers. 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Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 174 / Wednesday, September 9, 2015 / Notices 54289 to residents of Illinois with funding SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 2012, etiologic agent of syphilis. HCT/P from the Retirement Research n4a and NASUAD were awarded grants Establishments must, as required under Foundation. Additional funds are from ACL to build the business capacity Federal regulations, test a donor needed to leverage the foundation’s of state and community-based aging and specimen for evidence of T. pallidum funding, in order to ensure that the disability organizations for managed infection using appropriate FDA- current provision of services to Illinois long-term services and supports licensed, approved, or cleared donor residents will be continued. This (MLTSS). This one-year of grant screening tests, in accordance with the supplementary funding would be funding, through continuation grant, manufacturer’s instructions, unless an provided for the approved period. will continue to support n4a and exception to this requirement applies. Authority: This program is authorized NASUAD in their efforts to: The guidance clarifies that FDA does under Title II of the Older Americans Act • Identify and track emerging trends, not consider diagnostic tests or pre- (OAA) (42 U.S.C. 3032), as amended by the best practices, barriers, lessons learned amendment devices (which have not Older Americans Act Amendments of 2006, and progress in the aging and disability been licensed, approved, or cleared) to Public Law 109–365. networks’ integration into MLTSS and be adequate for use in donor testing for (Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance delivery system reform; T. pallidum infection under the criteria 93.048). • increase state and community-based specified in Federal regulations. The aging and disability organizations’ guidance announced in this notice Dated: August 14, 2015. capacity, readiness and involvement in finalizes the draft guidance of the same Kathy Greenlee, the provision of MLTSS through the title, dated October 2013. The Assistant Secretary for Aging and provision of broad-based and targeted recommendations in the guidance Administrator, Administration for technical assistance, education and Community Living. announced in this notice supersedes training; and those recommendations for testing HCT/ [FR Doc. 2015–22630 Filed 9–8–15; 8:45 am] • develop products that complement P donors for evidence of T. pallidum BILLING CODE 4154–01–P and enhance the first two areas of focus. infection contained in the document This program is authorized under the entitled ‘‘Guidance for Industry: Older Americans Act of 1965, as Eligibility Determination for Donors of DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND amended in 2006, Public Law 109–365. HUMAN SERVICES Human Cells, Tissues, and Cellular and Dated: August 28, 2015. Tissue-Based Products (HCT/Ps),’’ dated Administration for Community Living Sharon Lewis, August 2007. Principal Deputy Administrator, DATES: Submit either electronic or Announcement of the Intent To Award Administration for Community Living. written comments on Agency guidances Single-Source Grants to the National [FR Doc. 2015–22631 Filed 9–8–15; 8:45 am] at any time. Association of Area Agencies on BILLING CODE 4154–01–P ADDRESSES: Submit written requests for Aging and the National Association of single copies of the guidance to the States United for Aging and Office of Communication, Outreach and Disabilities DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND Development, Center for Biologics HUMAN SERVICES Evaluation and Research (CBER), Food AGENCY: Administration for Community Living, HHS. and Drug Administration, 10903 New Food and Drug Administration Hampshire Ave., Bldg. 71, Rm. 3128, ACTION: Notice. [Docket No. FDA–2013–D–1213] Silver Spring, MD 20993–0002. Send one self-addressed adhesive label to SUMMARY: The Administration for Use of Donor Screening Tests To Test assist the office in processing your Community Living (ACL) announces the Donors of Human Cells, Tissues, and requests. The guidance may also be intent to award, subject to the Cellular and Tissue-Based Products obtained by mail by calling CBER at 1– availability of funds, single-source grant for Infection With Treponema pallidum 800–835–4709 or 240–402–8010. See awards in the amount of $335,000 to the (Syphilis); Guidance for Industry; the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section National Association of Area Agencies Availability for electronic access to the guidance on Aging (n4a) and $153,500 to the AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, document. National Association of State United for HHS. Submit electronic comments on the Aging and Disabilities (NASUAD). The ACTION: Notice. guidance to http://www.regulations.gov. awards will continue supporting and Submit written comments to the stimulating the ongoing work by these SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Division of Dockets Management (HFA– organizations to further develop and Administration (FDA or Agency) is 305), Food and Drug Administration, assist states and community-based announcing the availability of a 5630 Fishers Lane, Rm. 1061, Rockville, organizations with building their document entitled ‘‘Use of Donor MD 20852. business capacity for managed long- Screening Tests to Test Donors of FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul term services and supports and delivery Human Cells, Tissues and Cellular and E. Levine, Jr., Center for Biologics system reform. CFDA Numbers: 93.048 Tissue-Based Products for Infection Evaluation and Research, Food and DATES: The awards will be issued for a with Treponema pallidum (Syphilis); Drug Administration, 10903 New project period of September 30, 2015 Guidance for Industry.’’ The guidance Hampshire Ave., Bldg. 71, Rm. 7301, through September 29, 2016. document provides establishments that Silver Spring, MD 20993–0002, 240– Lhorne on DSK5TPTVN1PROD with NOTICES FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: make donor eligibility determinations 402–7911. Marisa Scala-Foley, Office of Integrated for donors of human cells, tissues, and SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Care Innovations, Administration for cellular and tissue-based products Community Living, 1 Massachusetts (HCT/P Establishments) with updated I. Background Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20001. recommendations concerning donor FDA is announcing the availability of Telephone: 202–357–3516; Email: testing for evidence of Treponema a document entitled ‘‘Use of Donor Marisa.Scala-Foley@acl.hhs.gov. pallidum (T. pallidum) infection, the Screening Tests to Test Donors of VerDate Sep<11>2014 14:19 Sep 08, 2015 Jkt 235001 PO 00000 Frm 00031 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\09SEN1.SGM 09SEN1


Document Created: 2015-12-15 09:53:20
Document Modified: 2015-12-15 09:53:20
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CollectionFederal Register
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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice.
DatesThe award will be issued for a project period to run concurrently with the existing grantee's budget period of July 1, 2015 through June 30, 2016.
ContactValerie Soroka, Office of Elder Justice and Adult Protective Services, Administration on Aging, Administration for Community Living, 1 Massachusetts Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20001. Telephone: 202-357-3531; Email: [email protected]
FR Citation80 FR 54288 
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