WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released the following public communication dated Aug. 23, 2024, from the American Academy of Home Care Medicine. Here are excerpts: * * * To: Chiquita Brooks-LaSure Administrator Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Attention: (CMS-1807-P) P.O. Box 8016 Baltimore, MD 21244 * CC: Dr. Meena Seshamani, Deputy Administrati more ST

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released the following public communication dated Aug. 21, 2024, from the American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living: * * * To: Ms. Chiquita Brooks-LaSure Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Department of Health and Human Services Room 445-G, Hubert H. Humphrey Building 200 Independence Avenue, SW Washington, D.C. 20 more ST

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released the following public communication dated Aug. 23, 2024, from Bridge Oncology. Here are excerpts: * * * To: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services U.S. Department of Health and Human Service 7500 Security Boulevard Baltimore, MD 21244 Re: CMS 2024 Proposed Rule- MPFS CMS-1807-P and OPPS CMS-1809-P * * * Dear Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services: I am subm more ST

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released the following public communication dated Aug. 14, 2024, from Matthew Ostrom, cardiologist at Cor Healthcare: * * * To: Chiquita Brooks-LaSure Administrator Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Department of Health and Human Services 7500 Security Boulevard Baltimore, MD 21244 Re: CMS-1809-P * * * Dear Administrator Brooks-LaSure, Your proposal to move the more ST

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released the following public communication dated Aug. 23, 2024, from Fresenius Medical Care, Waltham, Massachusetts: * * * To: The Honorable Chiquita Brooks-LaSure Administrator Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Department of Health and Human Services 7500 Security Boulevard Baltimore, MD 21244-1850 CMS-1805-P Medicare Program; End-Stage Renal Disease Prospective more ST

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released the following public communication dated Aug. 21, 2024, from Mark G. Lebwohl, dean for clinical therapeutics at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Clinical Therapeutics, New York. Lebwohl is also a professor and chairman emeritus at the Kimberly and Eric J. Waldman Department of Dermatology. * * * To: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Office of Strategic more ST

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released the following public communication on Aug. 22, 2024, from Seth Kipnis, medical director of Bariatric and Robotic Surgery at Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Neptune: * * * My name is Seth Kipnis. I am a general and bariatric surgeon at Jersey Shore University Medical Center. I serve as the director of bariatrics and robotic surgery at this hospital. I have been more ST

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released the following public communication dated Aug. 5, 2024, from Andrew Storm, associate professor of medicine at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota: * * * RE: Letter of Comment regarding aScope Gastro Transitional Pass-Through Payment Application * * * Gastrointestinal endoscopy has traditionally relied on reusable instruments. Concerns around infection risk led to new  more ST

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released the following public communication dated Aug. 22, 2024, from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission: * * * To: Chiquita Brooks-LaSure Administrator Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Department of Health and Human Services P.O. Box 8016 Baltimore, MD 21244-8016 Attention: CMS-1805-P Dear Ms. Brooks-LaSure: The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedP more ST

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released the following public communication dated Aug. 12, 2024, from Mehul Patel, interventional, structural and heart failure cardiologist at Methodist Lebonheur Healthcare, Memphis, Tennessee: * * * To: Chiquita Brooks-LaSure Administrator Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Department of Health and Human Services 7500 Security Boulevard Baltimore, MD 21244 Re: C more ST

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released the following public communication dated Aug. 21, 2024, from the National Forum of ESRD Networks, Henrico, Virginia: * * * To: The Honorable Chiquita Brooks-LaSure Administrator Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Department of Health and Human Services Attention: CMS-1805-P Mail Stop C4-26-05 7500 Security Boulevard Baltimore, MD 21244-1850 Re: CMS-1805- more ST

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released the following public communication on Aug. 23, 2024, from the National Grange: * * * To: Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, Administrator Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Department of Health and Human Services Attention: CMS-1805-P Mail Stop C4-26-05 7500 Security Boulevard Baltimore, MD 21244-1850 Re: Medicare Program: End-Stage Renal Disease Prospective Payment more ST

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released the following public communication dated Aug. 19, 2024, from the Rogosin Institute: * * * To: The Honorable Chiquita Brooks-LaSure Administrator Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services 7500 Security Boulevard Balmore, MD 21244 RE: CMS-1805-P: End-Stage Renal Disease Prospective Payment System, Payment for Renal Dialysis Services Furnished to Individuals with Acu more ST

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released the following public communication dated Aug. 21, 2024, from the South Dakota Association of Healthcare Organizations, Sioux Falls: * * * To: The Honorable Chiquita Brooks-LaSure Administrator Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services 7500 Security Blvd. Baltimore, MD 21244 RE: CY 2025 Home Health Prospective Payment System Proposed Rule (CMS-1803-P) * * * De more ST

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released the following public communication dated Aug. 22, 2024, from Tivity Health, Franklin, Tennessee: * * * To: The Honorable Chiquita Brooks-LaSure Administrator Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Department of Health and Human Services P.O. Box 8016 Baltimore, MD 21244-8016 Re: Medicare and Medicaid Programs; CY 2025 Payment Policies under the Physician Fee S more ST

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released the following public communication dated July 25, 2024, from Patrick Ha, chief of Division of Head and Neck Surgical Oncology at University of California San Francisco: * * * To: The Honorable CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Department of Health and Human Services Baltimore, MD 21244-8016 Via: Electronic Submiss more ST

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released the following public communication dated Aug. 15, 2024, from Paari Dominic, associate professor of medicine at the University of Iowa Health Care: * * * To: Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, Administrator Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Department of Health and Human Services Attention: CMS-1809-P P.O. Box 8010 Baltimore, MD 21244-8010 Re: CMS-1809-P: Medicare  more ST

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released the following public communication dated Aug. 14, 2024, from Shone Almeida, assistant professor at the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine. Almeida is also the director of the Cardiac Computerized Tomography and Cardiometabolic Disease Prevention Program of the Heart and Vascular Institute at Tampa General Hospital. * * * To: Chiquita Brooks-LaSur more ST

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released the following public communication dated Aug. 20, 2024, from the Visiting Nurse Association Health Group, Neptune, New Jersey: * * * To: The Honorable Chiquita Brooks-LaSure Administrator Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services 7500 Security Boulevard Baltimore, MD Re: CMS-1803-P Medicare Program; Calendar Year (CY) 2025 Home Health Prospective Payment System  more ST

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released the following public communication dated Aug. 16, 2024, from Amit Garg, founding chairman of Department of Dermatology at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell: * * * To the CMS Administrator: I am professor and founding chairman for the Department of Dermatology at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. I am also professor in the Institute  more ST

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released the following public communication dated April 19, 2024, from Alabama Port Authority, Mobile, and 203 collaborators: * * * To: Hon. Michael S. Regan, Administrator U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW; 1101-A Washington, D.C. 20460 Re: CARB's Clean Air Act Authorization Request [EPA-HQ-OAR-2023-0574] * * * Dear Administrator Regan: Granting the above referenced authorization request more ST

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released the following public communication dated May 13, 2024, from Associated Builders and Contractors: * * * To: The Honorable Jay Obernolte U.S. House of Representatives Washington, DC 20515 * * * Dear Rep. Obernolte and Members of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee Environment, Manufacturing, and Critical Materials Subcommittee: On behalf of Associated Builders and Contractors, a national construction indus more ST

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released the following public communication dated Feb. 26, 2024, from Joel Buettner, general manager of Placer Mosquito and Vector Control District: * * * To: Dr. Alexandra Dunn Assistant Administrator Environmental Protection Agency Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention dunn.alexandra@epa.gov RE: Public comment, PA-HQ-OPP-2020-0028-0002, Wolbachia pipientis wAlbB strain in male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes * * * more ST

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Food and Drug Administration has released the following public communication dated Aug. 20, 2024, from the Alliance for Safe Biologic Medicines, Arlington, Virginia: * * * To: Division of Dockets Management Food and Drug Administration 5630 Fishers Lane, Room 1061 Rockville, MD 20852 Re: Docket No. FDA-2017-D-0154- FDA Draft Guidance "Considerations in Demonstrating Interchangeability With a Reference Product: Update G more ST

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Food and Drug Administration has released the following public communication dated Aug. 23, 2024, from American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, Arlington, Virginia, and 11 collaborators: * * * To: Dr. Vincent Lo Re III, MD, MSCE Chair Drug Risk Management Advisory Committee Center for Drug Evaluation & Research U.S. Food & Drug Administration 10903 New Hampshire Avenue Silver Spring, MD. 20993 * To: Dr. Rajes more ST

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Food and Drug Administration has released the following public communication dated Aug. 15, 2024, from BioPhia Consulting Inc., Lake Forest, Illinois: * * * Best Practices for Meeting Management; Public Workshop; Request for Comments To: Docket Management Staff (HFA-305) Food and Drug Administration 5630 Fishers Lane, Rm. 1061 Rockville, MD 20852 * * * The webinar workshop on Best Practices for Meeting Management (Do more ST

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Food and Drug Administration has released the following public communication dated Aug. 12, 2024, from the Canadian Children Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Network, Ontario, Canada: * * * Patrizzia Cavazzone, MD, Director, CDER, patrizzia.cavazzone@fda.hhs.gov Peter Marks, MD, PhD, Director, Ctr for Biologics Evaluation, peter.marks@fda.hhs.gov Nikolay Nikolov, MD, Director, Office of Immunology, nikolay.nikolov@fda.hhs.gov more ST

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Food and Drug Administration has released the following public communication dated Aug. 21, 2024, from Gail Wright, president at Canadian PBC Society, Ontario, Canada: * * * To: FDA Gastrointestinal Drugs Advisory Committee (GIDAC) Jessica Seo, PharmD, MPH Designated Federal Officer (DFO) Division of Advisory Committee and Consultant Management Office of Executive Programs RE: Docket # FDA- 2024-N-3569 * * * I am wr more ST

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Food and Drug Administration has released the following public communication dated Aug. 20, 2024, from the Cigna Group: * * * To: Dockets Management Staff (HFA-305) Food and Drug Administration 5630 Fishers Lane, Rm. 1061 Rockville, MD 20852 Re: Docket No. FDA-2017-D-0154 for "Considerations in Demonstrating Interchangeability With a Reference Product: Update." * * * The Cigna Group welcomes the opportunity to respon more ST

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Food and Drug Administration has released the following public communication dated Aug. 21, 2024, from the Consumer Healthcare Products Association: * * * Re: Food and Drug Administration Best Practices for Meeting Management; Public Workshop; Request for Comments, 89 Fed. Reg. 52471-52473 (June 24, 2024); Docket No. FDA- 2024-N-2561/1 * * * The Consumer Healthcare Products Association/2 ("CHPA") is pleased to submit the more ST

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Food and Drug Administration has released the following public communication dated Aug. 20, 2024, from CVS Health: * * * The Honorable Robert M. Califf, M.D. Commissioner U.S. Food and Drug Administration 10903 New Hampshire Ave. Silver Spring, MD 20993-0002 Re: Considerations in Demonstrating Interchangeability With a Reference Product: Update; Draft Guidance for Industry * * * Dear Commissioner Califf: Thank you  more ST

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Food and Drug Administration has released the following public communication dated on Aug. 23, 2024, from Doctors for America: * * * Doctors for America Public Comment on FDA Draft Guidance, "Considerations in Demonstrating Interchangeability with a Reference product: Update" (FDA-2017-D-0154) Thank you for the opportunity to provide comment on the update to the guidance "Considerations in Demonstrating Interchangeability  more ST

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Food and Drug Administration has released the following public communication dated Aug. 22, 2024, from EMD Serono, Billerica, Massachusetts: * * * To: Dockets Management Staff (HFA-305) Food and Drug Administration 5630 Fishers Lane, Rm. 1061 Rockville, MD 20852 Re: Comments Regarding Docket No. FDA-2024-N-2561: Best Practices for Meeting Management; Public Workshop; Request for Comments * * * EMD Serono appreciates  more ST

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Food and Drug Administration has released the following public communication dated Aug. 20, 2024, from the Healthcare Leadership Council: * * * To: The Honorable Robert Califf, M.D. Commissioner Food and Drug Administration 5630 Fishers Lane, Rm 1061 Rockville, MD 20852 RE: FDA-2017-D-0154 - Considerations in Demonstrating Interchangeability with a Reference Product: Update * * * Dear Commissioner Califf: The Healt more ST

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Food and Drug Administration has released the following public communication dated Aug. 20, 2024, from the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society: * * * To: Dr. Robert Califf Commissioner U.S. Food and Drug Administration 10903 New Hampshire Ave Silver Spring, MD 20993-0002 Re: Considerations in Demonstrating Interchangeability With a Reference Product: Update; Draft Guidance for Industry; Availability [Docket No. FDA-2017-D-0 more ST

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Food and Drug Administration has released the following public communication dated Aug. 15, 2024, from the National Organization for Rare Disorders, Quincy, Massachusetts: * * * To: Patrizia Cavazzoni, M.D. Director, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research U.S. Food and Drug Administration 10001 New Hampshire Ave Silver Spring, MD 20903 * To: Peter Marks, M.D., PhD. Director, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Re more ST

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has released the following public communication dated Aug. 21, 2024, from the Poverty and Race Research Action Council: * * * To: Regulations Division, Office of General Counsel Department of Housing and Urban Development 451 7th Street, SW, Room 10276 Washington, DC 20410-0500 Sent electronically via the Federal Register RE: "Request for Information; Direct Rental Assistance," 89 Fed. Reg. 59750, Docket # FR-6466 more ST

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration has released the following public communication dated July 22, 2024, from the League of Oregon Cities, Salem: * * * To: Mark Hagemann, Director, Office of Safety Systems, Directorate of Standards and Guidance Occupational Safety & Health Administration U.S. Department of Labor 200 Constitution Avenue, NW Room Number N3626 Washington, D.C. 20210 Re: Proposed Rule Emergency Responder Rules *  more ST

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 -- The U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration has released the following public communication dated July 22, 2024, from Kurt Elkanich, director at the Town of Gray Public Safety Department, Maine: * * * To: The Honorable Douglas L. Parker Assistant Secretary of Labor U.S. Occupational Safety & Health Labor Hall of Honor 200 Constitution Avenue NW Washington, DC 20210 * * * Dear Assistant Secretary Parker: I'm writing today to express  more ST