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

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 164 (Wednesday, August 25, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 46401]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-22070]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Care Financing Administration
[Document Identifier: HCFA-R-137]


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

    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, has 
submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) the following 
proposal for the collection of information. Interested persons are 
invited to send comments regarding the 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: Extension of a currently 
approved collection;
    Title of Information Collection: Internal Revenue Service/Social 
Security Administration/Health Care Financing Administration Data Match 
and Supporting Regulations in 42 CFR Section 411.20-411.206;
    Form No.: HCFA-R-137 (OMB# 0938-0565);
    Use: The purpose of this collection is to save the Medicare 
program, money. MSP is essentially the same concept known in the 
private insurance industry as coordination of benefits, and refers to 
those situations where Medicare assumes a secondary payer role (private 
insurance being the primary payer) for covered services provided to a 
Medicare beneficiary. It is HCFA's responsibility to implement the 
various Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) provisions.;
    Frequency: Annually;
    Affected Public: Federal Government, Business or other for-profit, 
Not-for-profit institutions, Farms, State, and Local or Tribal 
Government;
    Number of Respondents: 327,947;
    Total Annual Responses: 327,947;
    Total Annual Hours: 1,096,466.
    To obtain copies of the supporting statement for the proposed 
paperwork collections referenced above, access HCFA's WEB SITE ADDRESS 
at www.hcfa.gov/regs/prdact95.htm, or E-mail your request, 
including your address and phone number, 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 
designated at the following address: OMB Human Resources and Housing 
Branch, Attention: Allison Eydt, New Executive Office Building, Room 
10235, Washington, DC 20503.

    Dated: August 10, 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. 99-22070 Filed 8-24-99; 8:45 am]
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