Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 207 (Wednesday, October 27, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 57902]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-27986]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Care Financing Administration
[Document Identifier: HCFA-R-0298]


Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; 
Comment Request

AGENCY: Health Care Financing Administration, HHS.
    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; Title of Information 
Collection: Evaluation of New Medicare Members of Medicare+Choice 
Plans; Form No.: HCFA-R-0298 (OMB# 0938-New); Use: The objective of 
this survey is to understand the special information needs of new 
Medicare members, their sources of information, their preferred 
distribution channels, their understanding of the traditional Medicare 
program and their understanding of their particular +Choice plan, and 
the impact National Medicare Education Program activities may have on 
new members' decisions to choose a +Choice plan or change their plan; 
Frequency: On occasion; Affected Public: Individuals; Number of 
Respondents: 3000; Total Annual Responses: 3000; Total Annual Hours: 
1212.
    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: Julie Brown, Room N2-14-26, 7500 
Security Boulevard, Baltimore, Maryland 21244-1850.

    Dated: October 18, 1999.
John Parmigiani,
Acting, HCFA Reports Clearance Officer, HCFA Office of Information 
Services, Security and Standards Group, Division of HCFA Enterprise 
Standards.
[FR Doc. 99-27986 Filed 10-26-99; 8:45 am]
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