Method for evaluating and establishing reimbursement rates for health care services authorized under the Indian Health Service contract health services regulations--selected IHS sites--IHS. Addition of sites to the IHS pilot project.

The Indian Health Service (IHS) issues this notice to inform the public that additional sites will be added to the IHS Pilot Project now being conducted in the Portland Area. This Pilot Project is to determine whether an alternative method of evaluating and establishing reimbursement rates for contract health services (CHS) will result in greater participation and lower cost to the IHS. The additional sites include the Alaska Native Medical Center and other selected locations within the Alaska Area IHS; the metropolitan Billings, Montana vicinity and other selected locations within the Billings Area IHS; and the Cherokee Service Unit, within the Nashville Area IHS.