Health and Human Services Department, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services,
The Department of Health and Human Services ("the Department") is committed to ensuring the civil rights of all individuals who access or seek to access health programs or activities of covered entities under Section 1557 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The Department proposes to revise its Section 1557 regulation in order to better comply with the mandates of Congress, address legal concerns, relieve billions of dollars in undue regulatory burdens, further substantive compliance, reduce confusion, and clarify the scope of Section 1557 in keeping with pre-existing civil rights statutes and regulations prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, and disability.
Document Headings Document headings vary by document type but may contain the following: the agency or agencies that issued and signed a document the number of the CFR title and the number of each part the document amends, proposes to amend, or is directly related to the agency docket number / agency internal file number the RIN which identifies each regulatory action listed in the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions See the Document Drafting Handbook for more details. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Office of the Secretary 42 CFR Parts 438, 440, and 460 45 CFR Parts 86, 92, 147, 155, and 156 [Docket No.: HHS-OCR-2019-0007] RIN 0945-AA11 AGENCY: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid; Office for Civil Rights (OCR), Office of the Secretary, HHS. ACTION: Proposed rule. SUMMARY: The Department of Health and Human Services (“the Department”) is committed to ensuring the civil rights of all individuals who access or seek to access health programs or activities of covered entities under Section 1557 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The Department proposes to revise its Section 1557 regulation in order to better comply with the mandates of Congress, address legal concerns, relieve billions of dollars in undue regulatory burdens, further substantive compliance, reduce confusion, and clarify the scope of Section 1557 in keeping with pre-existing civil rights statutes and regulations prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, and disability. DATES: Submit comments on or before August 13, 2019. ADDRESSES: You may submit comments to this proposed rule, identified by RIN 0945-AA11, by any of the following methods: Federal eRulemaking Portal: You may submit electronic comments at http://www.regulations.gov by searching for the Docket ID number HHS-OCR-2019-0007. Follow the instructions at http://www.regulations.gov online for submitting com…
Citation: 84 FR 27846
