Agency information collection activities: Submission for OMB review; comment request,

[Federal Register: July 30, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 146)]

[Notices]

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Care Financing Administration

[Document Identifier: HCFA-R-0106 and HCFA-R-0284]

Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

AGENCY: Health Care Financing Administration.

In compliance with the requirement of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), Department of Health and Human Services, is publishing the following summary of proposed collections for public comment. Interested persons are invited to send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this collection of information, including any of the following subjects: (1) The necessity and utility of the proposed information collection for the proper performance of the agency's functions; (2) the accuracy of the estimated burden; (3) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (4) the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of information technology to minimize the information collection burden.

1. Type of Information Collection Request: Reinstatement, without change, of a previously approved collection for which approval has expired; Title of Information Collection: Criteria for Medicare Coverage of Heart Transplants; Form No.: HCFA-R-106 (OMB No 0938-0490); Use: Medicare participating hospitals must file an application to be approved for coverage and payment of heart transplants performed on Medicare beneficiaries. The application must include the following data: patient selection, patient management, commitment, facility plans, experience and survival rates, maintenance of data, organ procurement, laboratory procedures, and billing. Frequency: Annually; Affected Public: Business or other for-profit; Number of Respondents: 5; Total Annual Responses: 5; Total Annual Hours Requested: 500.

2. Type of Information Collection Request: Revision of a currently approved collection; Title of Information Collection: Medicaid Statistical Information System (MSIS); Form No.: HCFA-R-0284 (OMB# 0938-0345); Use: State data are reported by a Federally mandated process known as MSIS. These data are the basis for: Medicaid actuarial forecasts for service utilization and costs; Medicaid legislative analysis and cost savings estimates; and responding to requests for information from HCFA components, the Department, Congress, and other customers. The national MSIS database will contain details that will allow constructive or predictive analysis of today's Medicaid issues (e.g., pregnant women, and infants).; Frequency: Quarterly and Annually; Affected Public: State, Local, or Tribal

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Government; Number of Respondents: 53; Total Annual Responses: 212; Total Annual Hours: 2,120.

To obtain copies of the supporting statement and any related forms for the proposed paperwork collections referenced above, access HCFA's Web Site address at http://www.hcfa.gov/regs/prdact95.htm, or E-mail your request, including your address, phone number, OMB number, and HCFA document identifier, to Paperwork@hcfa.gov, or call the Reports Clearance Office on (410) 786-1326. Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information collections must be mailed within 30 days of this notice directly to the OMB desk officer: OMB Human Resources and Housing Branch, Attention: Allison Eydt, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235, Washington, D.C. 20503.

Dated: July 22, 1999. John P. Burke III, HCFA Reports Clearance Officer, HCFA Office of Information Services, Security and Standards Group, Division of HCFA Enterprise Standards.

[FR Doc. 99-19481Filed7-29-99; 8:45 am]

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