[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 99 (Friday, May 22, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28395-28396]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-13680]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Care Financing Administration
[Document Identifier: HCFA-R-5]


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: Reinstatement, without 
change of a previously approved collection for which approval has 
expired.; Title of Information Collection: Physician Certifications/
Recertification in Skilled Nursing Facilities Manual Instructions and 
Supporting Regulations 42 CFR 424.20; Form No.: HCFA-R-5; Use: The 
Medicare program requires as a condition of participation for Medicare 
Part A payment for posthospital skilled nursing facility (SNF) 
services, that a physician must certify and periodically recertify that 
a beneficiary requires an SNF level of care. The physician 
certification requirement is intended to ensure that the beneficiary's 
need for services has been established and then reviewed and updated at 
appropriate intervals. Frequency: On occasion; Affected Public: 
Individuals or households, business or other for-profit, not -for-
profit institutions, State, Local or Tribal Government; Number of

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Respondents: 689,005; Total Annual Responses: 2,598,493; Total Annual 
Hours: 365,914.
    To obtain copies of the supporting statement for the proposed 
paperwork collections referenced above, E-mail your request, including 
your address and phone number, to P[email protected], 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: May 15, 1998.
John P. Burke III,
HCFA Reports Clearance Officer, HCFA, Office of Information Services, 
Information Technology Investment Management Group, Division of HCFA 
Enterprise Standards.
[FR Doc. 98-13680 Filed 5-21-98; 8:45 am]
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