[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 42 (Thursday, March 4, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 10478]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-5349]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Care Financing Administration
[Document Identifier: HCFA-R-65]


Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; 
Comment Request

AGENCY: Health Care Financing Administration, HHS.
    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, is 
publishing the following summary of proposed collections for public 
comment. Interested persons are invited to send comments regarding this 
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: Extension of a currently 
approved collection;
    Title of Information Collection: Information Collection 
Requirements in Final Peer Review Organization Sanction Regulations 42 
CFR 1004.40, 1004.50, 1004.60, and 1004.70;
     Form No.: HCFA-R-65 (OMB# 0938-0444);
    Use: The Peer Review Improvement Act of 1982 amended Title XI of 
the Social Security Act to create the Utilization and Quality Control 
Peer Review Organization (PRO) program. The PRO program replaced the 
existing Professional Standards Review Organization (PSRO) program and 
streamlined peer review activities. PROs will ensure that care provided 
to Medicare patients is reasonable, medically necessary, appropriate, 
of a quality that meets professionally recognized standards of care, 
and that inpatient services could not be more appropriately provided on 
an outpatient basis or in a different type facility;
    Frequency: On occasion;
    Affected Public: Not-for-profit institutions, and Business or other 
for-profit;
    Number of Respondents: 53;
    Total Annual Responses: 1,060;
    Total Annual Hours: 22,684.
    To obtain copies of the supporting statement and any related forms 
for the proposed paperwork collections referenced above, access HCFA's 
Web Site address at http://www.hcfa.gov/regs/prdact95.htm, or E-mail 
your request, including your address, phone number, OMB number, and 
HCFA document identifier, 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 60 days of this notice directly to the HCFA Paperwork Clearance 
Officer designated at the following address: HCFA, Office of 
Information Services, Security and Standards Group, Division of HCFA 
Enterprise Standards, Attention: Dawn Willinghan, Room N2-14-26, 7500 
Security Boulevard, Baltimore, Maryland 21244-1850.

    Dated: February 25, 1999.
John P. Burke III,
HCFA Reports Clearance Officer, HCFA Office of Information Services, 
Security and Standards Group, Division of HCFA Enterprise Standards.
[FR Doc. 99-5349 Filed 3-3-99; 8:45 am]
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