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[FR Doc No: 94-27942]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Care Financing Administration

 

Public Information Collection Requirements Submitted to the 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Clearance

AGENCY: Health Care Financing Administration.
    The Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), Department of 
Health and Human Services (HHS), has submitted to OMB the following 
proposals for the collection of information in compliance with the 
Paperwork Reduction Act (Public Law 96-511).
    1. Type of Request: Revision; Title of Information Collection: 
Monitoring and Evaluation of the Medicare Cataract Surgery Alternate 
Payment Demonstration; Form No.: HCFA-R-154; Use: Proposed changes in 
the presurgery and postsurgery patient interviews that will be used to 
interview Medicare beneficiaries participating in the Medicare Cataract 
Surgery Alternate Payment Demonstration. Changes in the research design 
necessitate that some questions in the beneficiary surveys be modified 
in order to be comparable to an existing data base and that total 
annual respondent burden be reduced.; Frequency: On occasion; 
Respondents: Individuals or households, businesses or other for profit, 
nonprofit institutions; Estimated Number of Responses: 562 (survey), 
4,170 (checklist); Average Hours Per Response: .30 (survey), .15 
(checklist); Total Estimated Burden Hours: 795.
    2. Type of Request: Reinstatement; Title of Information Collection: 
Statement of Deficiencies and Plan of Correction; Form No.: HCFA-2567; 
Use: This form provides information regarding deficiencies noted during 
periodic facility and laboratory certification surveys. Information 
from this form is used to make decisions concerning certification and 
recertification of health care facilities participating in the 
Medicare/Medicaid programs and of laboratories regulated by the 
Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA); Frequency: 
Biennially; Respondents: Businesses or other for profit, small 
businesses or organizations, State or local governments, Federal 
agencies or employees; Estimated Number of Responses: 98,400; Average 
Hours Per Response: 2; Total Estimated Burden Hours: 196,800.
    3. Type of Request: Reinstatement; Title of Information Collection: 
Laboratory Personnel Report (CLIA); Form No.: HCFA-209; Use: This form 
is used by the State agency to determine a laboratory's compliance with 
personnel qualifications under CLIA. This information is needed for a 
laboratory's CLIA certification and recertification; Frequency: 
Biennially; Respondents: State or local governments, businesses or 
other for profit, Federal agencies or employees, small businesses or 
organizations, nonprofit institutions; Estimated Number of Responses: 
26,250; Average Hours Per Response: .5; Total Estimated Burden Hours: 
13,125.
    4. Type of Request: Reinstatement; Title of Information Collection: 
Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA), Section 42 
CFR, Part 493; Form No.: HCFA-R-26; Use: CLIA requires every 
laboratory, with certain exceptions contained in the regulation, that 
performs testing on human specimens to meet performance requirements in 
order to be certified. This rule, HSQ-176, implements the certificate, 
laboratory standards, and inspection requirements of CLIA; Frequency: 
On occasion; Respondents: Federal agencies or employees, nonprofit 
institutions, State or local governments, individuals or households; 
Estimated Number of Responses: 149,700; Average Hours Per Response: 
61.488; Total Estimated Burden Hours: 9,204,754.
    Additional Information or Comments: Call the Reports Clearance 
Office on (410) 966-5536 for copies of the clearance request packages. 
Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collections should be sent 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 3001, Washington, D.C. 20503.

    Dated: November 2, 1994.
Kathleen Larson,
Acting Director, Management Planning and Analysis Staff, Office of 
Financial and Human Resources, Health Care Financing Administration.
[FR Doc. 94-27942 Filed 11-10-94; 8:45 am]
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