Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 155 (Thursday, August 12, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 44030]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-20915]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Care Financing Administration
[Document Identifier: HCFA-R-0283]


Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; 
Comment Request

AGENCY: Health Care Financing Administration, HHS.

ACTION: Comment request.

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    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.
    Type of Information Collection Request: New collection; Title of 
Information Collection: Market Survey of Fraud, Waste and Abuse 
Detection Software; Form No.: HCFA-R-0283 (OMB# 0938-new); Use: This 
information collection tool is essential to providing the Health Care 
Financing Administration (HCFA) a vehicle to ascertain cutting edge 
fraud, waste, and abuse detection products. HCFA and its contractors 
presently use a number of these tools, as do other segments of 
government, the health care industry, and industry generally. New 
products taking advantage of new technologies are in continuous 
development. This completely voluntary survey will ensure that HCFA is 
vigilant in identifying new advances to help fight the scourge of 
Medicare fraud and abuse.; Frequency: Annually; Affected Public: 
Business or other for profit, and Not for profit institutions; Number 
of Respondents: 400; Total Annual Responses: 450; Total Annual Hours: 
1,350.
    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 https://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 60 days of this notice directly to the HCFA Paperwork Clearance 
Officer designated at the following address: HCFA, Office of 
Information Services, Security and Standards Group, Division of HCFA 
Enterprise Standards, Attention: Louis Blank, Room N2-14-26, 7500 
Security Boulevard, Baltimore, Maryland 21244-1850.

    Dated: July 29, 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. 99-20915 Filed 8-11-99; 8:45 am]
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