[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 36 (Wednesday, February 24, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 9156]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-4491]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration on Aging
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request
AGENCY: Administration on Aging, HHS.
The Administration on Aging (AoA), Department of Health and Human
Services, proposes to submit to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) the following proposal for the collection of information in
compliance with section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995 (Pub. L. 96-511):
Title of Information Collection: Operation Restore Trust Grantee
Reports.
Type of Request: New.
Use: To collect and publish periodic summaries of proposed
projects. These proposed projects constitute an evaluation of the
Administration on Aging's Operation 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 a 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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Annual
Number of Responses/ Hours/ burden Annual
clients client response hours burden cost
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Semi-annual Reporting Form..................... 30 2 1 60 $1,800
Staff Interview................................ 30 1 1 30 900
Trainee Interview.............................. 100 1 .5 50 1,500
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Total...................................... 160 ........... ........... 140 4,200
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Frequency: Semi-annual.
Respondents: Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
and Health Care Anti-fraud Waste and Abuse Community Volunteer
Demonstration Program grantees 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.
Dated: February 18, 1999.
June B. Faris,
Acting Director, Executive Secretariate Administration on Aging.
[FR Doc. 99-4491 Filed 2-23-99; 8:45 am]
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