[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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