Attachment A_Authorizing Legislative

Attachment A:
Applicable Laws and Regulations
National Center for Health Statistics Legislative Mandate (41 USC 242K)
Sec. 306 [242k]
(a) There is established in the Department of Health and Services the National Center for Health
Statistics (hereinafter in this section referred to as the “Center” which shall be under the direction
of a Director who shall be appointed by the Secretary. The Secretary, acting through the Center,
shall conduct and support statistical and epidemiological activities for the purpose of improving
the effectiveness, efficiency, and quality of health services in the United States.
(b) In carrying out subsection (a), the Secretary, acting through the Center--(1) shall collect statistics on--(A) the extent and nature of illness and disability of the population of the United
States (or of any groupings of the people included in the population), including
life expectancy, the incidence of various acute and chronic illnesses, and infant
and maternal morbidity and mortality,
(B) the impact of illness and disability of the population on the economy
of the United States and on other aspects of the well-being of its
population (or of such groupings),
(C) environmental , social, and other health hazards,
(D) determinants of health
(E) health resources, including physicians, dentists, nurses, and other health
professionals by specialty and type of practice and the supply of services by
hospitals, extended care facilities, home health agencies, and other health
institutions,
(F) utilization of health care, including utilization of
(i) ambulatory health services by specialties, and
(ii) services of hospitals, extended care facilities, home health agencies, and
other institutions,
(G) health care costs and financing, including the trends in health care prices and
cost, the sources of payments for health care services, and
(H) family formation, growth, and dissolution;
(2) shall undertake and support (by grant or contract) research, demonstrations, and
evaluations respecting new or improved methods for obtaining new or improved methods
for obtaining current data on the matters referred to in paragraph (1);
(3) may undertake and support (by grant or contract) epidemiological research,
demonstrations, and evaluations on the matters referred to in paragraph (1); and
(4) may collect, furnish, tabulate, and analyze statistics, and prepare studies, on matters
referred to in paragraph (1) upon request of public and nonprofit private entities under
arrangements under which the entities will pay the cost of the service provided.
Amounts appropriated to the Secretary from payments made under arrangements made under
paragraph (4) shall be available to the Secretary for obligation until expended.