[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 247 (Thursday, December 24, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 71290-71291]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-34067]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration on Aging
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection;
Comment Report
In compliance with section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995 concerning the opportunity for public comment on proposed
collections of information, the Administration on Aging (AoA) seeks to
collect and publish periodic summaries of proposed projects. These
proposed projects constitute an evaluation of the Administration on
Aging's Operation
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Restore Trust (ORT) grantees. The mission of the Administration on
Aging's ORT initiatives is to fight fraud, waste, and abuse in the
Medicare and Medicaid programs. As part of a nation-wide partnership of
public and private agencies and organizations, AoA funds grants through
two mechanisms, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
(HIPPA) (Pub. L. 104-191) and the Health Care Anti-fraud Waste and
Abuse Community Volunteer Demonstration Program contained in the
Omnibus Consolidated Appropriation Act of 1997. These two sets of
projects provide education, training, outreach, and other services to
build community coalitions, promote awareness, and stimulate action on
the part of staff, volunteers, and beneficiaries to identify and report
potential cases of inappropriate billing and other improper activity in
the nation's publicly financed health insurance programs.
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collections of
information are necessary for the performance of the functions of the
agency, including whether the information shall have practical utility;
the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed
collection of information; ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) ways to minimize
the burden of the collection of information on respondents, including
through the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of
information technology. Data will be from all of the AoA funded sites
receiving funding in Fiscal Year 1999 and later years where program
outcomes are to be assessed on semi-annual basis. The analysis of the
data also will help to determine whether the goal of reducing health
care waste, fraud, and abuse is being achieved.
The primary purpose of the proposed data collection activity is to
meet the reporting requirements of the Government Performance Review
Act (GPRA) (Pub. L. 103-62) by allowing AoA to quantify the effects and
accomplishments of ORT programs.
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Number of Responses/ Annual burden Annual burden
clients client Hours/response hours cost
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Semi-annual reporting form..... 30 2 1 60 $1800
Staff Interview................ 30 1 1 30 900
Trainee Interview.............. 100 1 .5 50 1500
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Total...................... 160 .............. ............... 140 4200
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To request more information concerning the proposed projects, or to
obtain a copy of the information collection plans, call Kenton Williams
(202) 619-3951. Written comments may be sent to Kenton Williams, Room
4730 Wilber Cohen Building, 330 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington,
DC 20201.
Written comments should be received within 60 days of this notice.
June B. Faris,
Acting Director, Executive Secretariate, Administration on Aging.
[FR Doc. 98-34067 Filed 12-23-98; 8:45 am]
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