[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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